I think “PR-focus distorts good thinking and clear communication” is a fairly widespread problem. Somehow PR makes people anxious, and focusing on it tends to result in people engaging in weird social games at the expense of engaging or communicating directly about reality.
I’m curating this partly because Anna’s suggestion of “replace ‘PR’ with ‘defend honor’” seems like an interesting suggestion, which might directly help people who are currently PR focused. And partly because addressing the problem somehow seems fairly important, and several comments here seem fruitful to me for further exploring the issue.
Curated.
I think “PR-focus distorts good thinking and clear communication” is a fairly widespread problem. Somehow PR makes people anxious, and focusing on it tends to result in people engaging in weird social games at the expense of engaging or communicating directly about reality.
I’m curating this partly because Anna’s suggestion of “replace ‘PR’ with ‘defend honor’” seems like an interesting suggestion, which might directly help people who are currently PR focused. And partly because addressing the problem somehow seems fairly important, and several comments here seem fruitful to me for further exploring the issue.
I’m gonna try to ‘defend my honor’ more. And ‘the honor of LessWrong’.