Hello, everyone! I’ve been lurking for about a year and I’ve finally overcome the anxiety I encounter whenever I contemplate posting. More accurately, I’m experiencing enough influences at this very moment to feel pulled strongly to comment.
I’ve just tumbled to the fact that I may have an instinctive compulsion against the sort of signalling that’s often discussed here and by Robin Hanson. In the last several hours alone I’ve gone far out of my way to avoid signalling membership in an ingroup or adherence to a specific cohort. Is this sort of compulsion common amongst LWers? (I’m aware that declaring myself an anti-signaller runs the risk of an accusation of signalling itself but whadayagonnado.)
I’m also very interested in how pragmatism, pragmaticism, and Charles Sanders Peirce form (if at all) the philosophical underpinnings of the sort of rationality that LW centers on. It seems like Peirce doesn’t get nearly as much attention here as he should, but maybe there are good reasons for that.
Speaking for myself, (a) I am not good at playing social games, therefore I hate environments where things like signalling are the only important thing, and (b) joining any faction feels to me like indirectly supporting all their mistakes, which I would rather avoid.
Welcome! I myself recently dared to step in and become an active member here. Have you read Dewey and Wright Mills? In that case, what do you think about them?
Hello, everyone! I’ve been lurking for about a year and I’ve finally overcome the anxiety I encounter whenever I contemplate posting. More accurately, I’m experiencing enough influences at this very moment to feel pulled strongly to comment.
I’ve just tumbled to the fact that I may have an instinctive compulsion against the sort of signalling that’s often discussed here and by Robin Hanson. In the last several hours alone I’ve gone far out of my way to avoid signalling membership in an ingroup or adherence to a specific cohort. Is this sort of compulsion common amongst LWers? (I’m aware that declaring myself an anti-signaller runs the risk of an accusation of signalling itself but whadayagonnado.)
I’m also very interested in how pragmatism, pragmaticism, and Charles Sanders Peirce form (if at all) the philosophical underpinnings of the sort of rationality that LW centers on. It seems like Peirce doesn’t get nearly as much attention here as he should, but maybe there are good reasons for that.
Speaking for myself, (a) I am not good at playing social games, therefore I hate environments where things like signalling are the only important thing, and (b) joining any faction feels to me like indirectly supporting all their mistakes, which I would rather avoid.
Welcome! I myself recently dared to step in and become an active member here. Have you read Dewey and Wright Mills? In that case, what do you think about them?