Related to EY’s Lonely Dissent, and Hanson’s comment on such “In addition to suffering social disapproval when they first make their contrary claims, the lonely dissenter should realize that even if they are eventually proven right, they will likely still lose socially compared to if they had not so dissented.”
It also made me think of the inner ring by C.S. Lewis, especially this part:
“If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments.
Thank you for linking this, and one of his core points is worth thinking about: that most such inner rings do not have any worthwhile thing being used as its proxy measure for centrality. That academia manages to maintain any semblance of meritocracy at all given the incentives around it is a surprise and blessing.
Related to EY’s Lonely Dissent, and Hanson’s comment on such “In addition to suffering social disapproval when they first make their contrary claims, the lonely dissenter should realize that even if they are eventually proven right, they will likely still lose socially compared to if they had not so dissented.”
It also made me think of the inner ring by C.S. Lewis, especially this part:
EDIT: fixed typo.
Thank you for linking this, and one of his core points is worth thinking about: that most such inner rings do not have any worthwhile thing being used as its proxy measure for centrality. That academia manages to maintain any semblance of meritocracy at all given the incentives around it is a surprise and blessing.