I separated out the question of “stuff individuals should do unilaterally” from “norm enforcement” because it seems like at least some stuff doesn’t require any central decision nodes.
In particular, while “don’t lie” is an easy injunction to follow, “account for systematic distortions in what you say” is actually quite computationally hard, because there are a lot of distortions with different mechanisms and different places one might intervene on their thought process and/or communication process. “Publicly say literally ever inconvenient thing you think of” probably isn’t what you meant (or maybe it was?), and it might cause you to end not having a harder time thinking inconvenient thoughts.
I’m asking because I’m actually interested in improving on this dimension.
(some current best guesses of mine are, at least for my own values, are:
“Practice noticing heretical thoughts I think and actually notice what things you can’t say, without obligating yourself to say them, so that you don’t accidentally train yourself not to think them”
“Practice noticing opportunities to exhibit social courage, either in low stakes situations, or important situations. Allocate some additional attention towards practicing social courage as skill/muscle” (it’s unclear to me how much to prioritize this, because there’s two separate potential models of ‘social/epistemic courage is a muscle’ and ’social/epistemic courage is a resource you can spend, but you risk using up people’s willingness to listen to you, as well a “most things one might be courageous about actually aren’t important and you’ll end up spending a lot of effort on things that don’t matter”)
But, I am interested in what you actually do within your own frame/value setup.
I separated out the question of “stuff individuals should do unilaterally” from “norm enforcement” because it seems like at least some stuff doesn’t require any central decision nodes.
In particular, while “don’t lie” is an easy injunction to follow, “account for systematic distortions in what you say” is actually quite computationally hard, because there are a lot of distortions with different mechanisms and different places one might intervene on their thought process and/or communication process. “Publicly say literally ever inconvenient thing you think of” probably isn’t what you meant (or maybe it was?), and it might cause you to end not having a harder time thinking inconvenient thoughts.
I’m asking because I’m actually interested in improving on this dimension.
(some current best guesses of mine are, at least for my own values, are:
“Practice noticing heretical thoughts I think and actually notice what things you can’t say, without obligating yourself to say them, so that you don’t accidentally train yourself not to think them”
“Practice noticing opportunities to exhibit social courage, either in low stakes situations, or important situations. Allocate some additional attention towards practicing social courage as skill/muscle” (it’s unclear to me how much to prioritize this, because there’s two separate potential models of ‘social/epistemic courage is a muscle’ and ’social/epistemic courage is a resource you can spend, but you risk using up people’s willingness to listen to you, as well a “most things one might be courageous about actually aren’t important and you’ll end up spending a lot of effort on things that don’t matter”)
But, I am interested in what you actually do within your own frame/value setup.