Everyone who has argued that the “Boo lights” post intends to make it more difficult to charge groupthink is in fact right.
I’m sticking my neck out and arguing that it is presently too easy (relative to what I believe is the standard most conducive to furthering this site’s mission). Yes this could well be wrong.
Some of the evidence I base this judgement on is participation in other “communities of sincere inquiry”, and in particular the one where my “secret identity” is established. There the words used differed (“dogma” and “religion” were the two most common). But the pattern was the same: the accusations were beneficial only to the relative status of the person making them, in a small group of self-described “critics”, and never productive of improved states of knowledge or belief. There was never a useful suggestion offered at the same time as the accusation, proposing that the community do something it wasn’t already doing.
I might like that as the new lower bound on accusations of groupthink, dogma, mental masturbation or what have you: propose something the community isn’t already doing.
Everyone who has argued that the “Boo lights” post intends to make it more difficult to charge groupthink is in fact right.
I’m sticking my neck out and arguing that it is presently too easy (relative to what I believe is the standard most conducive to furthering this site’s mission). Yes this could well be wrong.
Some of the evidence I base this judgement on is participation in other “communities of sincere inquiry”, and in particular the one where my “secret identity” is established. There the words used differed (“dogma” and “religion” were the two most common). But the pattern was the same: the accusations were beneficial only to the relative status of the person making them, in a small group of self-described “critics”, and never productive of improved states of knowledge or belief. There was never a useful suggestion offered at the same time as the accusation, proposing that the community do something it wasn’t already doing.
I might like that as the new lower bound on accusations of groupthink, dogma, mental masturbation or what have you: propose something the community isn’t already doing.