It feels more to me like we’re the quiet weird kid in high school that doesn’t speak up or show emotion because we’re afraid of getting judged or bullied. Which, fair enough, the school is sort of like—just look at poor cryonics, or even nuclear power—but the road to popularity (let along getting help with what’s bugging us) isn’t to try to minimize our expressions to ‘proper’ behavior while letting us be characterized by embarrassing past incidents (e.g. Roko’s Basilisk) if we’re noticed at all.
It isn’t easy to build social status, but right now we’re trying next to nothing and we’ve seen it doesn’t seem to do enough.
It feels more to me like we’re the quiet weird kid in high school that doesn’t speak up or show emotion because we’re afraid of getting judged or bullied. Which, fair enough, the school is sort of like—just look at poor cryonics, or even nuclear power—but the road to popularity (let along getting help with what’s bugging us) isn’t to try to minimize our expressions to ‘proper’ behavior while letting us be characterized by embarrassing past incidents (e.g. Roko’s Basilisk) if we’re noticed at all.
It isn’t easy to build social status, but right now we’re trying next to nothing and we’ve seen it doesn’t seem to do enough.