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There's a massive divide between the Consensus and the Slighted that runs through many domains. I think healing this would in particular help decrease AGI X-risk by decreasing the motivation to make AGI and decreasing the motivated reasoning around X-risks. A conjecture is that both poles are attracting states in social space (let's say the vector space of people represented as a vector v where v_i is how much you talk with / listen to person number i).
(Sorry, your post seems pretty interesting but I don't have enough spare bandwidth; I'll just note that those things you list here sound of course related to Slight but being Slighted is always a kind of choice you're making, similar to being Consensus, and neither is that great--they both have advantages and disadvantages. They're social and attitudinal attractors to some extent, but far from absolute.)
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Feel free to respond/go into detail more if you happen to have the time/choose to. I guess I'll say that is not how I personally experience it. The default state is to be in Consensus and not even be aware there is a choice, even if you were born in some feral culture and then say move to a very different culture, it's very different because you think your own culture is normal and act that way. At my current point in time to "act Consensus" or to suppress Slighted-beliefs is like a constant forced strain on my moral compass. This is not a choice framing in my opinion, although as is with all definitions people can see very different things in certain words despite potential overlap and I would not want to discount that.
I guess one thing I'm saying is that one can have any given beliefs without taking the Slighted affiliations/attitudes too far. It's not a mere choice, it's a skill, potentially a big one (like lots of subskills, like "programming" is a skill), that one could learn over time.