There’s two ways I’m thinking your aversion could be interpreted: not revealing something because mostly you feel it’s personally embarrassing, or not revealing something you because you believe you would be widely negatively judged for it. I tried to offer a solution to the former interpretation of the problem in the other comment. In this comment, I’ll cover what I believe makes sense when you believe you’d be very harshly judged. I don’t believe such aversions to sharing such thoughts are miscalibrated.
I’ll start with an example. When I wrote this above post, when example I was considering using was from one user, not using a real name, who was asking about whether it was worth taking an illegal psychoactive substance for its therapeutic and cognitive effects. Now, I didn’t need to ask anyone’s permission to include their own perspectives as examples, and I still don’t. That’s because nobody does. However, this one user might be linked to their public identity. I’m not mentioning either the username, nor the substance in question, so it’s not searchable. That was an edge case for which I erred to be more discrete, and not very publicly profile someone who asks a more taboo question. They got the answer they wanted, which is what’s important. I wrote the post so individual users would get value for themselves, not ask questions out of a sense of ‘improving the community’, or whatever.
That’s the sort of personal detail that might attract unwanted attention outside of Less Wrong norms. Talking about our own personal politics, or ideological beliefs (fringe-science, social, philosophical, etc.), that aren’t shared by most others isn’t always appreciated on Less Wrong. It’s fine to hold those beliefs if you’re willing to accept you may very well be wrong, but debating such on Less Wrong still seems problematic. However, the community has shifted from “politics is the mind-killer to “politics is hard mode to “we have other sites specifically for discussing controversial topics”.
There’s two ways I’m thinking your aversion could be interpreted: not revealing something because mostly you feel it’s personally embarrassing, or not revealing something you because you believe you would be widely negatively judged for it. I tried to offer a solution to the former interpretation of the problem in the other comment. In this comment, I’ll cover what I believe makes sense when you believe you’d be very harshly judged. I don’t believe such aversions to sharing such thoughts are miscalibrated.
I’ll start with an example. When I wrote this above post, when example I was considering using was from one user, not using a real name, who was asking about whether it was worth taking an illegal psychoactive substance for its therapeutic and cognitive effects. Now, I didn’t need to ask anyone’s permission to include their own perspectives as examples, and I still don’t. That’s because nobody does. However, this one user might be linked to their public identity. I’m not mentioning either the username, nor the substance in question, so it’s not searchable. That was an edge case for which I erred to be more discrete, and not very publicly profile someone who asks a more taboo question. They got the answer they wanted, which is what’s important. I wrote the post so individual users would get value for themselves, not ask questions out of a sense of ‘improving the community’, or whatever.
That’s the sort of personal detail that might attract unwanted attention outside of Less Wrong norms. Talking about our own personal politics, or ideological beliefs (fringe-science, social, philosophical, etc.), that aren’t shared by most others isn’t always appreciated on Less Wrong. It’s fine to hold those beliefs if you’re willing to accept you may very well be wrong, but debating such on Less Wrong still seems problematic. However, the community has shifted from “politics is the mind-killer to “politics is hard mode to “we have other sites specifically for discussing controversial topics”.