I have a large public ‘weird’ commitment to modafinil; simply liking privacy is pretty normal. (And my own personal experience seems to have justified my preference.)
I myself don’t have much problem to rationally access public commitments to ideas while I’m in private. It doesn’t raise much cognitive dissonance inside myself.
It doesn’t take much emotional work to deal with the topics. Dealing with akrasia and social relations to other people seems to raise a lot more emotions.
simply liking privacy is pretty normal.
Liking privacy to the extend that there isn’t a single person that you would trust to analyse the video is not normal.
I’m not saying “You are wrong to value privacy”. I’m just saying that it’s a topic that’s more likely to bring you towards emotional barriers.
5 years ago I used a nickname and no image on the internet. I had some irrational fears of sharing my identity.
Liking privacy to the extend that there isn’t a single person that you would trust to analyse the video is not normal.
There’s no one on LW who I both trust and wish to waste their time analyzing on a lame video. It’s just not that important. If you have a little camera, you can replicate the whole experiment in a few minutes and confirm what one would have expected from the weird patient group, and which was also confirmed by previous LWers trying the procedure out. There’s no need to spend a lot of time debating a report, because any problem you have with it can easily be fixed in a few minutes by doing a better demonstration yourself: you can do it tonight and email off the video to, I dunno, Yvain or something, if my laziness and wish for privacy seems that bizarrely strong.
1) Not verifying the video.
2) Asking questions where there are probably no enough strong emotional effects.
As far as doing the experiment myself, at the moment getting rid of core rationalisation about my worldview isn’t my main goal. At the moment stability is more important for myself then destablizing my belief system by kicking out stuff.
Have you asked yourself while you were under the effect cold water whether your believe in the importance of your privacy is warranted?
To me that seems like a question that’s more likely to involve some form of Ugh-field than the question of whether Modafinil is effective.
I have a large public ‘weird’ commitment to modafinil; simply liking privacy is pretty normal. (And my own personal experience seems to have justified my preference.)
I myself don’t have much problem to rationally access public commitments to ideas while I’m in private. It doesn’t raise much cognitive dissonance inside myself. It doesn’t take much emotional work to deal with the topics. Dealing with akrasia and social relations to other people seems to raise a lot more emotions.
Liking privacy to the extend that there isn’t a single person that you would trust to analyse the video is not normal.
I’m not saying “You are wrong to value privacy”. I’m just saying that it’s a topic that’s more likely to bring you towards emotional barriers.
5 years ago I used a nickname and no image on the internet. I had some irrational fears of sharing my identity.
There’s no one on LW who I both trust and wish to waste their time analyzing on a lame video. It’s just not that important. If you have a little camera, you can replicate the whole experiment in a few minutes and confirm what one would have expected from the weird patient group, and which was also confirmed by previous LWers trying the procedure out. There’s no need to spend a lot of time debating a report, because any problem you have with it can easily be fixed in a few minutes by doing a better demonstration yourself: you can do it tonight and email off the video to, I dunno, Yvain or something, if my laziness and wish for privacy seems that bizarrely strong.
There are two different issues:
1) Not verifying the video. 2) Asking questions where there are probably no enough strong emotional effects.
As far as doing the experiment myself, at the moment getting rid of core rationalisation about my worldview isn’t my main goal. At the moment stability is more important for myself then destablizing my belief system by kicking out stuff.