Nice! I think your use of “Hufflepuff virtue” really points at a great group of related memes that seem really helpful for group cohesion and sustainability.
I’ll try to add some more examples/bounce off yours and you can let me know if they’re in the same spirit?
Genuinely being excited when someone else gets a great opportunity because we’re on the same side. Referring opportunities to people we know who’re well fit for them.
Matching people with similar goals together and other 3rd party coordination tasks that are helpful for others. Valuing 3rd party actors who help link things together.
Being positive and vocalizing support, even if it’s just a basic “this is cool!” on posts / things (so we don’t just assume silence = ambivalence).
Making it more of a norm to contribute some fraction of time towards public-good projects (EX: the wiki, beginner how-to’s, etc.)
Valuing coordination / teamwork in and of itself as a terminal value. (This could be misguided in the limit, but I think it approximates the sort of behavior we want to see more of.)
For that last point, I think the LW community is nitpicky that we need to be more specific, but I can imagine a lengthier post that made the case for something similar to what you describe re “teamwork as a terminal value”
quick thoughts: there is too much information in the world to verify it all yourself. at some point you need to outsource the science-doing to other people a bit otherwise you will never get anything done. Society does this all the time, in manufacturing, in being part of something greater than yourself, working together towards a shared goal.
Nice! I think your use of “Hufflepuff virtue” really points at a great group of related memes that seem really helpful for group cohesion and sustainability.
I’ll try to add some more examples/bounce off yours and you can let me know if they’re in the same spirit?
Genuinely being excited when someone else gets a great opportunity because we’re on the same side. Referring opportunities to people we know who’re well fit for them.
Matching people with similar goals together and other 3rd party coordination tasks that are helpful for others. Valuing 3rd party actors who help link things together.
Being positive and vocalizing support, even if it’s just a basic “this is cool!” on posts / things (so we don’t just assume silence = ambivalence).
Making it more of a norm to contribute some fraction of time towards public-good projects (EX: the wiki, beginner how-to’s, etc.)
Valuing coordination / teamwork in and of itself as a terminal value. (This could be misguided in the limit, but I think it approximates the sort of behavior we want to see more of.)
Yes!
For that last point, I think the LW community is nitpicky that we need to be more specific, but I can imagine a lengthier post that made the case for something similar to what you describe re “teamwork as a terminal value”
Great! I’d love to talk more about this at some point (maybe collaborating on the “teamwork is a terminal value” post?) [wow, that’s meta].
Collaborate? Count me in! (PM me a link to a google doc once you have one going)
Sounds great! Raemon suggested to use this thread as a public jumping off point for brainstorming, and I’m cool w/ that.
So feel free to drop ideas / things below, if you already have some interesting ways to craft this essay!
(But once a doc is made, I’ll definitely PM you too)
quick thoughts: there is too much information in the world to verify it all yourself. at some point you need to outsource the science-doing to other people a bit otherwise you will never get anything done. Society does this all the time, in manufacturing, in being part of something greater than yourself, working together towards a shared goal.