I think “close but not quite right” is likely to be a ceiling for map coverage when talking about complicated individuals in more complicated group activities. The world-modeling and goal-seeking divergence between the infected (including myself, on some topics) and the enlightened (I’ll ignore the bystanders for now) is pretty significant.
And, of course, it’s a continuum, which shifts across contexts and across time even for an individual, so any generalization will be wrong sometimes. That’s true of the actor/scribe dimension as well—I generally think of myself as a scribe in my internal narrative, and in select individual and very-small-group conversations, but an actor in most work and larger social contexts.
LessWrong is an interesting case. Posts and comments are definitely acts, but the goal of the act is improved truth-knowing (and -telling), which is a fun hybrid of the two styles.
I think “close but not quite right” is likely to be a ceiling for map coverage when talking about complicated individuals in more complicated group activities. The world-modeling and goal-seeking divergence between the infected (including myself, on some topics) and the enlightened (I’ll ignore the bystanders for now) is pretty significant.
And, of course, it’s a continuum, which shifts across contexts and across time even for an individual, so any generalization will be wrong sometimes. That’s true of the actor/scribe dimension as well—I generally think of myself as a scribe in my internal narrative, and in select individual and very-small-group conversations, but an actor in most work and larger social contexts.
LessWrong is an interesting case. Posts and comments are definitely acts, but the goal of the act is improved truth-knowing (and -telling), which is a fun hybrid of the two styles.