I’ll have more to say later on the risks associated with deliberate ritual. I take them seriously.
For now, perhaps take comfort in the fact that this was a huge amount of work. For the past month I’ve worked around 20 hours a week on this in addition to my regular job. I think it is very hard to put in enough effort that the ritual would cause something bad by accident.
I’m much more concerned about all the regular ol’ ways that organizations become insular and narrowminded, which unfortunately do not have universally recognizable creepy rituals to identify them.
Could you elaborate on that last paragraph, or were you planning on making a full-length post about it at some point? I’ve been worrying about it myself, but I don’t think I’ve been here long enough to start conjecturing.
I’ll have more to say later on the risks associated with deliberate ritual. I take them seriously.
For now, perhaps take comfort in the fact that this was a huge amount of work. For the past month I’ve worked around 20 hours a week on this in addition to my regular job. I think it is very hard to put in enough effort that the ritual would cause something bad by accident.
I’m much more concerned about all the regular ol’ ways that organizations become insular and narrowminded, which unfortunately do not have universally recognizable creepy rituals to identify them.
Could you elaborate on that last paragraph, or were you planning on making a full-length post about it at some point? I’ve been worrying about it myself, but I don’t think I’ve been here long enough to start conjecturing.
Eliezer made several full length posts about it. One example
I won’t be discussing that directly, but I’ll be talking about what I think about ritual in particular as a cult-attractor.