But this here is on a much more sophisticated level.
It is astonishing how effective it can be to systematize a skill that I learn on a simple problem, and then apply the systematized skill to more sophisticated problems.
So, OK: your goal is to find a way to disconnect emotionally from Less Wrong and from SIAI, and you already have the experience of disconnecting emotionally from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. How did you disconnect from them? Was there a particular event that transitioned you, or was it more of a gradual thing? Did it have to do with how they behaved, or with philosophical/intellectual opposition, or discovering a new social context, or something else...?
That sort of thing.
As for Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate, etc. … (shrug). When I disagree with stuff or have doubts, I say so. Feel free to read through my first few months of comments here, if you want, and you’ll see plenty of that. And I see lots of other people doing the same.
I just don’t expect anyone to find what I say—whether in agreement or disagreement—more than peripherally interesting. It really isn’t about me.
It is astonishing how effective it can be to systematize a skill that I learn on a simple problem, and then apply the systematized skill to more sophisticated problems.
So, OK: your goal is to find a way to disconnect emotionally from Less Wrong and from SIAI, and you already have the experience of disconnecting emotionally from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. How did you disconnect from them? Was there a particular event that transitioned you, or was it more of a gradual thing? Did it have to do with how they behaved, or with philosophical/intellectual opposition, or discovering a new social context, or something else...?
That sort of thing.
As for Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate, etc. … (shrug). When I disagree with stuff or have doubts, I say so. Feel free to read through my first few months of comments here, if you want, and you’ll see plenty of that. And I see lots of other people doing the same.
I just don’t expect anyone to find what I say—whether in agreement or disagreement—more than peripherally interesting. It really isn’t about me.