In the interest of optimizing our rationality I think that we need to continue to call out instances “community distancing” such as the one exhibited by Silas above.
The reason for doing so? It lets the dissenters know that a community can tolerate and appreciate criticism but not the creation of a lone wolf character. Lone wolves do not contribute to a community and instead impede our advances in rationality by drawing conversations back to their status. As such, their status seeking should be pointed out and skepticism should be attached to their future postings.
Passive-aggressive comments in particular are troublesome because these types eventually find ways to disrupt substantive threads by reminding others of their loner status and their unacknowledged genius. Their resentment then leads to them mocking key figures in a community (note Silas’ comments to both Eliezer and Luke).
Perhaps LW needs a mini-sequence on acceptable and non-acceptable signaling within a rational community.
As such, their status seeking should be pointed out and skepticism should be attached to their future postings.
I object. “Lone wolves”, and Silas in particular, are not more status seeking than average. Luke’s contributions are far more status seeking than Silas’s are. Luke is good at status seeking while Silas’s biggest weakness is that he fails to status seek when it would clearly be in his interests to do so.
About my experience...with LW’s is that silence is many times golden. There are those whom are rather old fashioned and follow Marine Law. In therapy you isolate the problem and separate what doesn’t belong like a sculptor does when observing the stone it is about to chisel out.
If a drifter would come into any mention I always heard that many dislike drifters because you don’t know too much about those, and if you do learn something desperately trying to find out where they went suddenly they have vanished leaving behind some interesting questions. So to say, a lone wolf has nothing to contribute I would say conservatively one ought to be careful to discern a wolf; one could have an Angel or a Devil ready to gobble you up hehehe
It lets the dissenters know that a community can tolerate and appreciate criticism but not the creation of a lone wolf character. Lone wolves do not contribute to a community and instead impede our advances in rationality by drawing conversations back to their status.
Let’s taboo “lone wolf” and see what you actually mean by it, because I don’t see Silas as a lone wolf figure in this debacle. For example, most of his comments have positive karma—what I would consider a lone wolf wouldn’t have such support.
Very true.
In the interest of optimizing our rationality I think that we need to continue to call out instances “community distancing” such as the one exhibited by Silas above.
The reason for doing so? It lets the dissenters know that a community can tolerate and appreciate criticism but not the creation of a lone wolf character. Lone wolves do not contribute to a community and instead impede our advances in rationality by drawing conversations back to their status. As such, their status seeking should be pointed out and skepticism should be attached to their future postings.
Passive-aggressive comments in particular are troublesome because these types eventually find ways to disrupt substantive threads by reminding others of their loner status and their unacknowledged genius. Their resentment then leads to them mocking key figures in a community (note Silas’ comments to both Eliezer and Luke).
Perhaps LW needs a mini-sequence on acceptable and non-acceptable signaling within a rational community.
I object. “Lone wolves”, and Silas in particular, are not more status seeking than average. Luke’s contributions are far more status seeking than Silas’s are. Luke is good at status seeking while Silas’s biggest weakness is that he fails to status seek when it would clearly be in his interests to do so.
You think they don’t contribute at all?
I think all 3 of these accounts are spoofs: they have odd names, and no other activity.
About my experience...with LW’s is that silence is many times golden. There are those whom are rather old fashioned and follow Marine Law. In therapy you isolate the problem and separate what doesn’t belong like a sculptor does when observing the stone it is about to chisel out.
If a drifter would come into any mention I always heard that many dislike drifters because you don’t know too much about those, and if you do learn something desperately trying to find out where they went suddenly they have vanished leaving behind some interesting questions. So to say, a lone wolf has nothing to contribute I would say conservatively one ought to be careful to discern a wolf; one could have an Angel or a Devil ready to gobble you up hehehe
Let’s taboo “lone wolf” and see what you actually mean by it, because I don’t see Silas as a lone wolf figure in this debacle. For example, most of his comments have positive karma—what I would consider a lone wolf wouldn’t have such support.