It’s not propaganda. OP clearly believes strongly in the sentiments discussed in the post, and its mostly a timeline of personal response to outside events than a piece meant to misinform or sway others regarding those events.
And while you do you in terms of your mental health, people who want to actually be “less wrong” in life would be wise to seek out and surround themselves by ideas different from their own.
Yes, LW has a certain broad bias, and so ironically for most people here I suspect it serves this role “less well” than it could in helping most of its users be less wrong. But particularly if you disagree with the prevailing views of the community, that makes it an excellent place to spend your time in listening, even it if can create a somewhat toxic environment for partaking in discussions and debate.
It can be a rarity to find spaces where people you disagree with take time to write out well written and clearly thought out pieces on their thoughts and perspectives. At least in my own lived experiences, many of my best insights and ideas were the result of strongly disagreeing with something I read and pursuing the train of thought resulting from that exposure.
Sycophantic agreement can give a bit of a dopamine kick, but I tend to find it next to worthless for advancing my own thinking. Give me an articulate and intelligent “no-person” any day over a “yes-person.”
Also, very few topics are actually binaries even if our brains tend towards categorizing them as such. Data doesn’t tend to truly map to only one axis, and it typically even mapped to a single axis it falls along a spectrum. It’s possible to disagree about the spectrum of a single axis of a topic while finding insight and agreement about a different axis.
Taking what works and leaving what doesn’t is probably the most useful skill one can develop in information analysis.
It’s not propaganda. OP clearly believes strongly in the sentiments discussed in the post, and its mostly a timeline of personal response to outside events than a piece meant to misinform or sway others regarding those events.
And while you do you in terms of your mental health, people who want to actually be “less wrong” in life would be wise to seek out and surround themselves by ideas different from their own.
Yes, LW has a certain broad bias, and so ironically for most people here I suspect it serves this role “less well” than it could in helping most of its users be less wrong. But particularly if you disagree with the prevailing views of the community, that makes it an excellent place to spend your time in listening, even it if can create a somewhat toxic environment for partaking in discussions and debate.
It can be a rarity to find spaces where people you disagree with take time to write out well written and clearly thought out pieces on their thoughts and perspectives. At least in my own lived experiences, many of my best insights and ideas were the result of strongly disagreeing with something I read and pursuing the train of thought resulting from that exposure.
Sycophantic agreement can give a bit of a dopamine kick, but I tend to find it next to worthless for advancing my own thinking. Give me an articulate and intelligent “no-person” any day over a “yes-person.”
Also, very few topics are actually binaries even if our brains tend towards categorizing them as such. Data doesn’t tend to truly map to only one axis, and it typically even mapped to a single axis it falls along a spectrum. It’s possible to disagree about the spectrum of a single axis of a topic while finding insight and agreement about a different axis.
Taking what works and leaving what doesn’t is probably the most useful skill one can develop in information analysis.