I don’t fully understand the thrust of the argument here: I’m not sure if you’re referring at any point to one activating and the other not, and you start talking about the ‘risk’ now being lower and I’m not sure what that risk is. However, this jumped out to me because it just seems like in-group self-congratulatory stuff:
“If you are a LWer, you are likely to be surrounded by people who are particularly nicer, given many of them want to save the world, aid the miserable, or help those who don’t exist yet. Your brain is not totally aware of that selection effect. ”
Possibly if I understood your argument, ‘nicer’ would make sense here. But it doesn’t leap out as hugely justified given that the concern with future humanity etc. seems to be at least as much an intellectual conclusion as indicating general morality or pleasantness.
My point about less wrongers is not in form of implication “LW->nicer” but abductive, given I have been to 5 meetups in different cities, know dozens of lesswrongers, and know dozens of groups that bear no relation to lesswrongers, even of different cultures.
I don’t fully understand the thrust of the argument here: I’m not sure if you’re referring at any point to one activating and the other not, and you start talking about the ‘risk’ now being lower and I’m not sure what that risk is. However, this jumped out to me because it just seems like in-group self-congratulatory stuff:
“If you are a LWer, you are likely to be surrounded by people who are particularly nicer, given many of them want to save the world, aid the miserable, or help those who don’t exist yet. Your brain is not totally aware of that selection effect. ”
Possibly if I understood your argument, ‘nicer’ would make sense here. But it doesn’t leap out as hugely justified given that the concern with future humanity etc. seems to be at least as much an intellectual conclusion as indicating general morality or pleasantness.
The risk is losing the friend.
My point about less wrongers is not in form of implication “LW->nicer” but abductive, given I have been to 5 meetups in different cities, know dozens of lesswrongers, and know dozens of groups that bear no relation to lesswrongers, even of different cultures.