While it’s true that simulacrum level 3 is a coordination strategy, I feel that we should be able to build a community that can coordinate while staying on simulacrum level 1. This means we’re allowed to say things like, “I publicly commit to following a system of norms where [something, e.g. using fraud for EA funding] is prohibited”. That is, replace “playing a game while pretending to talk about facts” to “playing a game while being very explicit about the rules and the moves”. Maybe Evan’s choice of language was suboptimal in some ways, but there needs to be some way to say it that doesn’t have to be banished to social media. Among other reasons, I don’t want to rely on social media for anything and personally I don’t use or follow social media at all (I don’t even have an account on anything except linkedin).
While it’s true that simulacrum level 3 is a coordination strategy, I feel that we should be able to build a community that can coordinate while staying on simulacrum level 1. This means we’re allowed to say things like, “I publicly commit to following a system of norms where [something, e.g. using fraud for EA funding] is prohibited”. That is, replace “playing a game while pretending to talk about facts” to “playing a game while being very explicit about the rules and the moves”. Maybe Evan’s choice of language was suboptimal in some ways, but there needs to be some way to say it that doesn’t have to be banished to social media. Among other reasons, I don’t want to rely on social media for anything and personally I don’t use or follow social media at all (I don’t even have an account on anything except linkedin).