this week’s meetup is on the train to crazy town. it was fun putting together all the readings and discussion questions, and i’m optimistic about how the meetup’s going to turn out! (i mean, in general, i don’t run meetups i’m not optimistic about, so i guess that’s not saying much.) im slightly worried about some folks coming in and just being like “this metaphor is entirely unproductive and sucks”, should consider how to frame the meetup productively to such folks.
i think one of my strengths as an organizer is that ive read sooooo much stuff and so its relatively easy for me to pull together cohesive readings for any meetup. but ultimately im not sure if it’s like, the most important work, to e.g. put together a bibliography of the crazy town idea and its various appearances since 2021. still, it’s fun to do.
we’re getting a dozen people and having to split into 2 groups on the regular! discussion was undirected but fun (one group got derailed bc someone read the shrimp welfare piece and updated so that suffering isn’t inherently bad in their value system and this kind of sniped the rest of us).
feel like I didn’t get a lot out of it intellectually though since we didn’t engage significantly with the metaphor. it was interesting how people (including me) seem to shy away from the fact that our defacto moral system bottoms out at vibes.
this week’s meetup is on the train to crazy town. it was fun putting together all the readings and discussion questions, and i’m optimistic about how the meetup’s going to turn out! (i mean, in general, i don’t run meetups i’m not optimistic about, so i guess that’s not saying much.) im slightly worried about some folks coming in and just being like “this metaphor is entirely unproductive and sucks”, should consider how to frame the meetup productively to such folks.
i think one of my strengths as an organizer is that ive read sooooo much stuff and so its relatively easy for me to pull together cohesive readings for any meetup. but ultimately im not sure if it’s like, the most important work, to e.g. put together a bibliography of the crazy town idea and its various appearances since 2021. still, it’s fun to do.
we’re getting a dozen people and having to split into 2 groups on the regular! discussion was undirected but fun (one group got derailed bc someone read the shrimp welfare piece and updated so that suffering isn’t inherently bad in their value system and this kind of sniped the rest of us).
feel like I didn’t get a lot out of it intellectually though since we didn’t engage significantly with the metaphor. it was interesting how people (including me) seem to shy away from the fact that our defacto moral system bottoms out at vibes.