I think there’s a real danger of that, in practice.
But I’ve had lots of experience with “my style of moderation/my standards” being actively good for people taking their first steps toward this brand of rationalism; lots of people have explicitly reached out to me to say that e.g. my FB wall allowed them to do just those sorts of first, flawed steps.
A big part of this is “if the standards are more generally held, then there’s more room for each individual bend-of-the-rules.” I personally can spend more spoons responding positively and cooperatively to [a well-intentioned newcomer who’s still figuring out the norms of the garden] if I’m not also feeling like it’s pretty important for me to go put out fires elsewhere.
Or in other words, that’s part of what I was clumsily gesturing at with “Cooperate past the first ‘defect’ from your interlocutor.” I should’ve written “first apparent defect.”
I think there’s a real danger of that, in practice.
But I’ve had lots of experience with “my style of moderation/my standards” being actively good for people taking their first steps toward this brand of rationalism; lots of people have explicitly reached out to me to say that e.g. my FB wall allowed them to do just those sorts of first, flawed steps.
A big part of this is “if the standards are more generally held, then there’s more room for each individual bend-of-the-rules.” I personally can spend more spoons responding positively and cooperatively to [a well-intentioned newcomer who’s still figuring out the norms of the garden] if I’m not also feeling like it’s pretty important for me to go put out fires elsewhere.
Or in other words, that’s part of what I was clumsily gesturing at with “Cooperate past the first ‘defect’ from your interlocutor.” I should’ve written “first apparent defect.”