Reminds me a bit of how it feels to have social media pressure to share political content on nonpolitical channels. It’s a relatively small ask compared to the enormity of the issue. Yet it feels disproportionately obnoxious to have it demanded of you over and over again.
In fact, in the face of such pressures, it makes sense to bypass fielding such requests individually, and have a policy of ignoring requests to share.
Likewise, if you have that reaction to being asked to do various unpleasant and inconvenient things by the government—things that are physical impositions, hurt, and cost you money—then you might make a policy for yourself of resisting all such impositions, regardless of the rationale.
I know that it was frustrations like this that originally got me interested in the EA/LW communities. Here was a group of people trying to find a more systematic way of separating effective ways to help from ineffective ones, and that gave me permission to say no to nonsense.
Pure speculation, but I wonder if people in the anti-vax cluster will develop a demand to create their own version of a rationality and EA movement? I imagine the originators would be religious family types, hard workers, who are frustrated with the symbolic nonsense on their own team but also have stridently different values from liberals. They’d create some sort of vision and institutions to build and transmit knowledge about how to create the brand of conservative nationalism that they actually want to live in.
Reminds me a bit of how it feels to have social media pressure to share political content on nonpolitical channels. It’s a relatively small ask compared to the enormity of the issue. Yet it feels disproportionately obnoxious to have it demanded of you over and over again.
In fact, in the face of such pressures, it makes sense to bypass fielding such requests individually, and have a policy of ignoring requests to share.
Likewise, if you have that reaction to being asked to do various unpleasant and inconvenient things by the government—things that are physical impositions, hurt, and cost you money—then you might make a policy for yourself of resisting all such impositions, regardless of the rationale.
I know that it was frustrations like this that originally got me interested in the EA/LW communities. Here was a group of people trying to find a more systematic way of separating effective ways to help from ineffective ones, and that gave me permission to say no to nonsense.
Pure speculation, but I wonder if people in the anti-vax cluster will develop a demand to create their own version of a rationality and EA movement? I imagine the originators would be religious family types, hard workers, who are frustrated with the symbolic nonsense on their own team but also have stridently different values from liberals. They’d create some sort of vision and institutions to build and transmit knowledge about how to create the brand of conservative nationalism that they actually want to live in.