Some recent drama has emphasized a couple obvious weaknesses of mine:
The one that arguably started the whole mess: I am way too relenting to people, especially those who come across as on the nice side. I suspect this is sort of a “reverse stupidity” scenario based on overdoing the opposite in the past.
There was a situation that looked likely to escalate to violence. My reaction was to go for the most easily-accessed weapon in reach (incidentally the one with padding). Then one of those involved in the dispute did the much smarter thing and handed me a phone. (Compare to HPMoR Chapter 11, IIRC)
Funnily enough, it was only a couple days ago that I was thinking of how harder it is to internalize meaningful rationality skills in the abstract rather than when confronted with them in real life. Though, in all actuality, “What would Harry James Potter Evans Verres do?” is probably a better huristic in most situations that don’t involve civilized human interaction. I say this in full knowledge of HJPEV’s flaws. After all, it’s not like I’m going to eryrnfr n qnatrebhf pevzvany, trg zl orfg sevraq zheqrerq, naq cbffvoyl qrfgebl gur havirefr, right?
Some recent drama has emphasized a couple obvious weaknesses of mine:
The one that arguably started the whole mess: I am way too relenting to people, especially those who come across as on the nice side. I suspect this is sort of a “reverse stupidity” scenario based on overdoing the opposite in the past.
There was a situation that looked likely to escalate to violence. My reaction was to go for the most easily-accessed weapon in reach (incidentally the one with padding). Then one of those involved in the dispute did the much smarter thing and handed me a phone. (Compare to HPMoR Chapter 11, IIRC)
Funnily enough, it was only a couple days ago that I was thinking of how harder it is to internalize meaningful rationality skills in the abstract rather than when confronted with them in real life. Though, in all actuality, “What would Harry James Potter Evans Verres do?” is probably a better huristic in most situations that don’t involve civilized human interaction. I say this in full knowledge of HJPEV’s flaws. After all, it’s not like I’m going to eryrnfr n qnatrebhf pevzvany, trg zl orfg sevraq zheqrerq, naq cbffvoyl qrfgebl gur havirefr, right?