It’s not really a discussion of rationality, it’s a discussion of the impact of a dating profile. I don’t believe that this issue will really influence us one way or another, and scrutinizing over the personal life of one of the community’s founding members out of paranoia for our public image can only help to reinforce the “cultish” signals we seem to give off.
I think we’ve already broken so many taboos that it doesn’t really matter if we break a few more, but this post defies cultural norms to rectify the breaking of cultural norms (not that anyone from outside LessWrong is gonna see this post).
On an unrelated note, I find it interesting that even a community as contrarian as this one still internalizes certain social expectations. The comments on this post seem to convey a common reaction of outrage, revulsion, and paranoia from the perceived invasion of privacy. I’m pretty sure the disproportionate hostility of my comment mostly came from trying to milk that reaction for karma.
It’s not really a discussion of rationality, it’s a discussion of the impact of a dating profile. I don’t believe that this issue will really influence us one way or another, and scrutinizing over the personal life of one of the community’s founding members out of paranoia for our public image can only help to reinforce the “cultish” signals we seem to give off.
I think we’ve already broken so many taboos that it doesn’t really matter if we break a few more, but this post defies cultural norms to rectify the breaking of cultural norms (not that anyone from outside LessWrong is gonna see this post).
On an unrelated note, I find it interesting that even a community as contrarian as this one still internalizes certain social expectations. The comments on this post seem to convey a common reaction of outrage, revulsion, and paranoia from the perceived invasion of privacy. I’m pretty sure the disproportionate hostility of my comment mostly came from trying to milk that reaction for karma.
Apparently, it worked.