One thing that’s important about this post is that it’s meant to evoke a particular set of felt senses more than be literally accurate. For instance, under certain definitions of “thinking”, the only way to avoid it would be to be unconscious or dead, which I’m obviously not trying to state here. This post was merely trying to evoke a certain phenomenological state, without delving into why that state was useful.
There’s a few reasons I think that vibing is useful for rationality, besides being an affordance that can allow you to enjoy communication in a new way (which I think would be reason enough). Note that many of these depend on models that I haven’t written up yet, so I don’t have the means to show why I believe them.
Vibing allows groups to communicate in a way that minimizes rationalizations and defensiveness in the discussion
Vibing allows a sort of proto “Looking” where you can see the world and your own psychology more for what it is as a group
Vibing allows groups to quickly see if a person will fit into their culture
Vibing gives you a better sense of the values people are actually optimizing for, including your own
I think that this sort of list can be dangerous because consciously trying to achieve these things can prevent you from vibing, in a similar way that consciously trying to practice reading people can harm circling, even though it’s a benefit of circling.
One thing that’s important about this post is that it’s meant to evoke a particular set of felt senses more than be literally accurate. For instance, under certain definitions of “thinking”, the only way to avoid it would be to be unconscious or dead, which I’m obviously not trying to state here. This post was merely trying to evoke a certain phenomenological state, without delving into why that state was useful.
There’s a few reasons I think that vibing is useful for rationality, besides being an affordance that can allow you to enjoy communication in a new way (which I think would be reason enough). Note that many of these depend on models that I haven’t written up yet, so I don’t have the means to show why I believe them.
Vibing allows groups to communicate in a way that minimizes rationalizations and defensiveness in the discussion
Vibing allows a sort of proto “Looking” where you can see the world and your own psychology more for what it is as a group
Vibing allows groups to quickly see if a person will fit into their culture
Vibing gives you a better sense of the values people are actually optimizing for, including your own
I think that this sort of list can be dangerous because consciously trying to achieve these things can prevent you from vibing, in a similar way that consciously trying to practice reading people can harm circling, even though it’s a benefit of circling.