Tribalism is bad? Without tribe affiliation you die and so probably do your memes. I think in your case your thinking about tribalism may be like a fish’s thinking about water: it is ubiquitous, transparent, and you can’t imagine life without it, and so you treat it as if it were nothing.
As to why lesswrongers seem less involved in politics… my thoughts. As wonky creative types we are way more interested in policy than the sausage-making of winning. We would be more interested in advising the president than in being the president, because we would be more interested in considering 22 different unrealistic policies and their implications than we would be in buttonholing 22 senators and trading pork with them for votes on the one policy which has percolated to the top which I do not have the time to truly understand myself because I need to get it passed.
Most politics is like driving a bus on the same route every day, and in local politics the route is not very big.
Tribalism is bad? Without tribe affiliation you die and so probably do your memes. I think in your case your thinking about tribalism may be like a fish’s thinking about water: it is ubiquitous, transparent, and you can’t imagine life without it, and so you treat it as if it were nothing.
As to why lesswrongers seem less involved in politics… my thoughts. As wonky creative types we are way more interested in policy than the sausage-making of winning. We would be more interested in advising the president than in being the president, because we would be more interested in considering 22 different unrealistic policies and their implications than we would be in buttonholing 22 senators and trading pork with them for votes on the one policy which has percolated to the top which I do not have the time to truly understand myself because I need to get it passed.
Most politics is like driving a bus on the same route every day, and in local politics the route is not very big.