There’s some gnashing of teeth in the comments about how hard it is to create positive social norms of collaboration, and any characteristic of the rationality community can be brought up to make it seem even harder. I think this is missing the overarching point of this post, which to me is: just do it.
Be the social norm you want to see in the world. Comment, compliment, help someone out.
This post is good not just for the advice it gives to others, but because it comes from a person who is mostly leading by example: deluks posts the super-useful bi-weekly rationality feed, is an organizer in our local meetup group, and is contributing to community projects.
Good social norms can seem hard in the abstract, but once you actually start living them they seem very natural.
Thanks for writing this sort of good-to-state-explicitly thing!
(A thing I’ve been trying to do lately is to explicitly type out obvious things like thanks to make appreciation more visible for things that have been valuable for me.)
There’s some gnashing of teeth in the comments about how hard it is to create positive social norms of collaboration, and any characteristic of the rationality community can be brought up to make it seem even harder. I think this is missing the overarching point of this post, which to me is: just do it.
Be the social norm you want to see in the world. Comment, compliment, help someone out.
This post is good not just for the advice it gives to others, but because it comes from a person who is mostly leading by example: deluks posts the super-useful bi-weekly rationality feed, is an organizer in our local meetup group, and is contributing to community projects.
Good social norms can seem hard in the abstract, but once you actually start living them they seem very natural.
Thanks for writing this sort of good-to-state-explicitly thing! (A thing I’ve been trying to do lately is to explicitly type out obvious things like thanks to make appreciation more visible for things that have been valuable for me.)