If I join a golf club where all its members apart from me also happen to be in the bowling club, I’m still not joining the bowling club. I don’t care if “Golfers” go bowling, but it would be really annoying if “gold club” became about bowling, or if I showed up to golf club and all the golfers spend the day talking about that awesome bowling experience they had over the weekend. I never wanted to be parted of a rituals club and wouldn’t have joined a “Have debates/hangouts about AI, epistemology, rationality, morality, meta-ethics, and logic with interesting people and do rituals with them club.”
Basically, I agree with Said’s answer to Raemon’s answer to you.
Insofar as the rituals are something fun people want to do, I don’t mind. Insofar as the rituals are presented as “This is something objectively awesome that you should rationally want for your own LW group!” I do.
If I join a golf club where all its members apart from me also happen to be in the bowling club, I’m still not joining the bowling club. I don’t care if “Golfers” go bowling, but it would be really annoying if “gold club” became about bowling, or if I showed up to golf club and all the golfers spend the day talking about that awesome bowling experience they had over the weekend. I never wanted to be parted of a rituals club and wouldn’t have joined a “Have debates/hangouts about AI, epistemology, rationality, morality, meta-ethics, and logic with interesting people and do rituals with them club.”
Basically, I agree with Said’s answer to Raemon’s answer to you.
Insofar as the rituals are something fun people want to do, I don’t mind. Insofar as the rituals are presented as “This is something objectively awesome that you should rationally want for your own LW group!” I do.