I’m probably going to write a second review that is more accessible. But, first: I made a couple vague promises here:
I said I would try to think of examples of what it would look like, if “someone I trusted, who looked like they had a deep model, in fact was just highly motivated.” (I said I’d think about it in advance so that if I learned new facts about someone I trusted, I wouldn’t confabulate excuses for them)
I said I would think more about my factual cruxes for “propagating the level of fear/disgust/concern that Benquo/Jessica/Zack had, into my own aesthetics.”
Did I do those things?
Re: the first thing… I thought about it for… probably 30 minutes. I think I also applied some artificial layer of cynicism/distrust of powerful people that I trusted, as a hedge.
I invested a bit into trying to re-architect myself such that if I lost trust in anyone powerful/important, I’d have contingency plans.
I’m not sure I did any of that skillfully or usefully. I think it might have caused some problems in making me less trusting in a way that made some discussions harder than they needed to be, but I’m not sure.
I’m not sure whether I still endorse the frame of this particular crux/
Re: the second thing… I haven’t done this really, but I did spend a lot of time thinking about how and why to adjust my aesthetics, and later wrote Propagating Facts into Aesthetics. I have a vague post brewing called “Should I Feel More Disgust?”, which I think about periodically, but not deeply. I do expect to get around to writing that, and for the writing process to engage with my vague promise here.
I’ll have more to say later about this overall conversation, but seemed good to take stock of my commitments.
I’m probably going to write a second review that is more accessible. But, first: I made a couple vague promises here:
I said I would try to think of examples of what it would look like, if “someone I trusted, who looked like they had a deep model, in fact was just highly motivated.” (I said I’d think about it in advance so that if I learned new facts about someone I trusted, I wouldn’t confabulate excuses for them)
I said I would think more about my factual cruxes for “propagating the level of fear/disgust/concern that Benquo/Jessica/Zack had, into my own aesthetics.”
Did I do those things?
Re: the first thing… I thought about it for… probably 30 minutes. I think I also applied some artificial layer of cynicism/distrust of powerful people that I trusted, as a hedge.
I invested a bit into trying to re-architect myself such that if I lost trust in anyone powerful/important, I’d have contingency plans.
I’m not sure I did any of that skillfully or usefully. I think it might have caused some problems in making me less trusting in a way that made some discussions harder than they needed to be, but I’m not sure.
I’m not sure whether I still endorse the frame of this particular crux/
Re: the second thing… I haven’t done this really, but I did spend a lot of time thinking about how and why to adjust my aesthetics, and later wrote Propagating Facts into Aesthetics. I have a vague post brewing called “Should I Feel More Disgust?”, which I think about periodically, but not deeply. I do expect to get around to writing that, and for the writing process to engage with my vague promise here.
I’ll have more to say later about this overall conversation, but seemed good to take stock of my commitments.