I don’t feel like the examples you brought are in a meaningful sense about politics. I see politics as being about interactions between more than two people.
If I look at the second example, there’s a question of the relationship between B and the coworkers in question that you completely ignore. Depending on how that relationship looks like it might cost you social capital to not defend the coworkers.
Depending on your relationship between A and B it’s not certain whether the compliment will be accepted as being sincere.
Another political answer might be “Are you currently looking for a new job? My friend is hiring”.
As far as the first example goes, there’s a risk that you signal with that kind of behavior that you are a person who doesn’t think seriously about politics.
To the extend that you are actually interested in politics writing posts that talk about how you treat other people as not having agency is a fundamentally bad idea. The internet doesn’t forget. While you don’t post under your real name, to the extend that you want to engage in political action with other rationalists there’s a good change that there will be people who can link your lesswrong account to your real identity.
Treating people as NPC also ignores on of the main problem with getting nerds to do politics. Yudkowsky wrote “Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate”. The pirate party that was something like a nerd party in Germany failed because they didn’t do well at cooperating with each others. When you start proclaiming that it’s good to treat others as NPCs you are likely increasing the problem because it’s a lot easier to cooperate with other people when you respect their agency.
As far as conceptual frameworks go I’m a German, and we Germans have Schulz von Thun with his Four Sides model. It’s popular model for communication and I was even taught it in high school. There are certain nerds who only communicate on the matter layer and ignore the other layers. Thinking in terms of his model is a lot less creepy than the post you wrote above and the model also makes more useful distinctions between different kinds of transmitted information.
I don’t feel like the examples you brought are in a meaningful sense about politics. I see politics as being about interactions between more than two people.
If I look at the second example, there’s a question of the relationship between B and the coworkers in question that you completely ignore. Depending on how that relationship looks like it might cost you social capital to not defend the coworkers.
Depending on your relationship between A and B it’s not certain whether the compliment will be accepted as being sincere.
Another political answer might be “Are you currently looking for a new job? My friend is hiring”.
As far as the first example goes, there’s a risk that you signal with that kind of behavior that you are a person who doesn’t think seriously about politics.
To the extend that you are actually interested in politics writing posts that talk about how you treat other people as not having agency is a fundamentally bad idea. The internet doesn’t forget. While you don’t post under your real name, to the extend that you want to engage in political action with other rationalists there’s a good change that there will be people who can link your lesswrong account to your real identity.
Treating people as NPC also ignores on of the main problem with getting nerds to do politics. Yudkowsky wrote “Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate”. The pirate party that was something like a nerd party in Germany failed because they didn’t do well at cooperating with each others. When you start proclaiming that it’s good to treat others as NPCs you are likely increasing the problem because it’s a lot easier to cooperate with other people when you respect their agency.
As far as conceptual frameworks go I’m a German, and we Germans have Schulz von Thun with his Four Sides model. It’s popular model for communication and I was even taught it in high school. There are certain nerds who only communicate on the matter layer and ignore the other layers. Thinking in terms of his model is a lot less creepy than the post you wrote above and the model also makes more useful distinctions between different kinds of transmitted information.