My impression is that a lack of compartmentalization is a risk factor for both LW and EA group membership.
My impression is also that it is a risk factor for religious mania.
Lack of compartmentalization, also called taking ideas seriously, when applied to religious ideas, gives you religious mania. Applied to various types of collective utilitarianism, can produce various anything from EA to antinatalism, from tithing to giving away all that you have. Applied to what it actually takes to find out how the world works, gives you Science.
Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing depends on what’s in the compartments.
My impression is that a lack of compartmentalization is a risk factor for both LW and EA group membership.
My impression is also that it is a risk factor for religious mania.
Lack of compartmentalization, also called taking ideas seriously, when applied to religious ideas, gives you religious mania. Applied to various types of collective utilitarianism, can produce various anything from EA to antinatalism, from tithing to giving away all that you have. Applied to what it actually takes to find out how the world works, gives you Science.
Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing depends on what’s in the compartments.
Also on how conflicts are resolved.
Yes, this is a good point that I was semi-conscious of, but not sufficiently salient so that it occurred to me explicitly while writing my post.