OK. And if I’m understanding you correctly, you believe that the existence on LW of the belief you describe in #5/#6, that religion and supernatural beliefs are harmful, is causing you to be less able to coordinate usefully with people who hold religious and supernatural beliefs, despite the fact that you endorse such coordination, entirely because you want to fit in here and the way to fit in is to treat such people in ways that are mutually exclusive with such coordination.
I think that’s the underlying motivation, yeah. Putting it explicitly makes it a lot easier to say to myself “well, that’s stupid… It’s my brain and I can do with it what I want.”
OK. And if I’m understanding you correctly, you believe that the existence on LW of the belief you describe in #5/#6, that religion and supernatural beliefs are harmful, is causing you to be less able to coordinate usefully with people who hold religious and supernatural beliefs, despite the fact that you endorse such coordination, entirely because you want to fit in here and the way to fit in is to treat such people in ways that are mutually exclusive with such coordination.
Is that correct?
I think that’s the underlying motivation, yeah. Putting it explicitly makes it a lot easier to say to myself “well, that’s stupid… It’s my brain and I can do with it what I want.”
Yeah, that’s been my experience as well.