In fairness, my values diverge pretty substantially from a lot of the community here, particularly around “life is serious” vs “life isn’t very serious” and the value of abstract bonds/ties/loyalties/camaraderie.
Thanks. I am not convinced, but I have a better idea of where our perspectives differ. I have to admit this feels a bit like a relationship shit-test, where an artificial situation is created, and far too much weight is put on the result.
I’d be interested to hear various participants’ and observers’ takes on the actual impact of this event, in terms of what they believe about people’s willingness to support the site or improve the world in non-artificial conditions.
Hmm. Appreciate your reply. I think there’s a subtle difference here, let me think about it some.
Hmm.
Okay.
Thrashing it out a bit more, I do think a lot of semi-artificial situations are predictive of future behavior.
Actually, to use an obviously extreme example that doesn’t universally apply, that’s more-or-less the theory behind the various Special Forces selection procedures —
As opposed to someone artificially creating a conflict to see how the other party navigates it — which I’m not at all a fan of — I think exercises in shared trust have both predictive value for future behavior and build good team cohesion when overcome.
I’d be interested to hear various participants’ and observers’ takes on the actual impact of this event
Me too, but I’d ideally want the data captured semi-anonymously. Most people, especially effective people, won’t comment publicly “I think this is despicable and have incremented downwards various confidences in people as a result” whereas the “aww it’s ok, no big deal” position is much more easily vocalized.
(Personally, I’m trying to tone down that type of vocalization myself. It’s unproductive on an individual level — it makes people dislike you for minimal gain. But I speculate that the absence of that level of dialogue and expression of genuine sentiment potentially leads to evaporative cooling of people who believe in teamwork, mission, mutual trust, etc.)
Reasonable minds can differ on this and related points, of course. And I’m very aware my values diverge a bit from many here, again around stuff like seriousness/camaraderie/cohesion/intensity/harm-vs-care/self-expression/defection/etc.
Here was my analysis last year —
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vvzfFcbmKgEsDBRHh/honoring-petrov-day-on-lesswrong-in-2019?commentId=ZZ87dbYiGDu6uMtF8
In fairness, my values diverge pretty substantially from a lot of the community here, particularly around “life is serious” vs “life isn’t very serious” and the value of abstract bonds/ties/loyalties/camaraderie.
Thanks. I am not convinced, but I have a better idea of where our perspectives differ. I have to admit this feels a bit like a relationship shit-test, where an artificial situation is created, and far too much weight is put on the result.
I’d be interested to hear various participants’ and observers’ takes on the actual impact of this event, in terms of what they believe about people’s willingness to support the site or improve the world in non-artificial conditions.
Hmm. Appreciate your reply. I think there’s a subtle difference here, let me think about it some.
Hmm.
Okay.
Thrashing it out a bit more, I do think a lot of semi-artificial situations are predictive of future behavior.
Actually, to use an obviously extreme example that doesn’t universally apply, that’s more-or-less the theory behind the various Special Forces selection procedures —
https://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com/media/tv-documentaries/elite-special-forces-documentaries/
As opposed to someone artificially creating a conflict to see how the other party navigates it — which I’m not at all a fan of — I think exercises in shared trust have both predictive value for future behavior and build good team cohesion when overcome.
Me too, but I’d ideally want the data captured semi-anonymously. Most people, especially effective people, won’t comment publicly “I think this is despicable and have incremented downwards various confidences in people as a result” whereas the “aww it’s ok, no big deal” position is much more easily vocalized.
(Personally, I’m trying to tone down that type of vocalization myself. It’s unproductive on an individual level — it makes people dislike you for minimal gain. But I speculate that the absence of that level of dialogue and expression of genuine sentiment potentially leads to evaporative cooling of people who believe in teamwork, mission, mutual trust, etc.)
Reasonable minds can differ on this and related points, of course. And I’m very aware my values diverge a bit from many here, again around stuff like seriousness/camaraderie/cohesion/intensity/harm-vs-care/self-expression/defection/etc.