Hiding in a shrubbery
You should be skeptical about your most current one! It is likely better informed than previous ones, but that doesn't mean you're done processing.
BUT, you need to exercise that skepticism by knowing what your best understanding strongly predicts and what discrepancies should surprise you, not by trying to make yourself give humbler answers.
It seems you've had some success in thinking things through rigorously on your own, so kudos to you! I can relate to not buying into any existing worldview.
Glad you did stick around. Anything in particular about the epistemic culture that you think works especially well or poorly?
I am tickled by your website, you have interestingly suckless aesthetic. Are you open to chatting in gather.town sometime?
oh dear. J is so familiar it was painful to read.
I expect to forward this post to people close to me, so we can better talk about Stress and Action without triggering all my Attack associations.
More dependencies tho
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Crucial. I definitely remember reading this and thinking it was one of the most valuable posts I'd seen all year. Good logical structure.
But it's hard to read? It has jarring, erratic rhetoric flow; succinct where elaboration is predictably needed, and verbose where it is redundant. A mathematician's scratch notes, I think.
I like your thought, thanks for sharing it. Also lovely to see someone else familiar with Microsolidarity.
THIS. TIMES 1000.
I want more people to know this about the Amish! More people should have the concept of "distributed community with intentional norms that has a good relationship with the government and can mostly run on their own legal system" floating around in their head.
For followups, I'd want to see
It's simple, which is not the same thing as easy. Not every attempt to try something different with norms has to look like Dragon Army.
Latex or nitrile, like you'd find at a hospital.
Most grocery stores will sell reusable rubbery gloves for cleaning, but those are usually too thick and oversized to get the fine motor control I want when cooking.