I definitely don’t want to imply that agreement with the majority is a metric, rather the ability to have a discussion at all, to be able to see part of the world they’re seeing and take that information into account in your own view (which might be called “interpretive labor” or “active listening”).
Agree. I do think the two are often kind of entwined (like, I am not capable of holding arbitrarily many maps of the world in my mind at the same time, so when I arrive at some unconventional beliefs that has broad consequences, the new models based on that belief will often replace more conventional models of the domain, and I will have to spend time regenerating the more conventional models and beliefs in conversation with someone who doesn’t hold the unconventional belief, which does frequently make the conversation kind of harder, and I still don’t think is evidence of something going terribly wrong)
Oh, something that might not have been clear is that talking with other people Michael knows made it clear that Michael was less insular than MIRI/CFAR people (who would have been less able to talk with such a diverse group of people, afaict), not just that he was less insular than people in cults.
I definitely don’t want to imply that agreement with the majority is a metric, rather the ability to have a discussion at all, to be able to see part of the world they’re seeing and take that information into account in your own view (which might be called “interpretive labor” or “active listening”).
Agree. I do think the two are often kind of entwined (like, I am not capable of holding arbitrarily many maps of the world in my mind at the same time, so when I arrive at some unconventional beliefs that has broad consequences, the new models based on that belief will often replace more conventional models of the domain, and I will have to spend time regenerating the more conventional models and beliefs in conversation with someone who doesn’t hold the unconventional belief, which does frequently make the conversation kind of harder, and I still don’t think is evidence of something going terribly wrong)
Oh, something that might not have been clear is that talking with other people Michael knows made it clear that Michael was less insular than MIRI/CFAR people (who would have been less able to talk with such a diverse group of people, afaict), not just that he was less insular than people in cults.