I wonder how you would have responded if I had not linked to the Litany of Gendlin wiki article. I wasn’t trying to say that reciting things is an ultrapowerful effect on disposition (though it might be anyway), just that facing reality even if it’s difficult is one of Less Wrong’s goals.
Every cause wants to be a cult: simply claiming to want to face reality as it is is rather weak evidence about actually working for it, or even actually wanting to. Many, if not most, people claim to want to face reality as it is, even when they actually don’t. “This group doesn’t actually want to face reality” is the overwhelming default expectation for any group, which requires much stronger evidence than claims of the contrary to be seriously doubted.
That’s the outside view for LW. As for the inside view, well, I might be overgeneralizing from one example too much, but from introspection and noting how easily I myself still often flinch from reality, I think most LWers still aren’t ready to truly face reality either.
I wonder how you would have responded if I had not linked to the Litany of Gendlin wiki article. I wasn’t trying to say that reciting things is an ultrapowerful effect on disposition (though it might be anyway), just that facing reality even if it’s difficult is one of Less Wrong’s goals.
Every cause wants to be a cult: simply claiming to want to face reality as it is is rather weak evidence about actually working for it, or even actually wanting to. Many, if not most, people claim to want to face reality as it is, even when they actually don’t. “This group doesn’t actually want to face reality” is the overwhelming default expectation for any group, which requires much stronger evidence than claims of the contrary to be seriously doubted.
That’s the outside view for LW. As for the inside view, well, I might be overgeneralizing from one example too much, but from introspection and noting how easily I myself still often flinch from reality, I think most LWers still aren’t ready to truly face reality either.