I suppose that increase in mazes means that if there is external pressure that appears politically fashionable, more people in the positions of relative power are motivated to (appear to) move in the direction of the pressure, whatever it is, because they don’t really care either way. This is how companies become woke, ecological, etc. (At least in appearance, because they will of course Goodhart the shit out of it.)
A different question is, why pressure in the direction of e.g. social justice is stronger than pressure in direction of e.g. Christianity. More activists? Better coordination? Strategic capture of important resources, such as media? Or maybe it is something completely different, e.g. social justice warriors pay less attention when their goals are Goodharted? (Firing one employee that said something politically incorrect is much cheaper than e.g. closing the shops on Sunday.) Before you say “left vs right”, consider that e.g. veganism is coded left-wing, but we don’t hear about companies turning vegan under external pressure. Or perhaps it’s all just a huge Keynesian beauty contest, where any thing, once successful, becomes fixed, and the social justice warriors just had lucky timing. I don’t know.
Before you say “left vs right”, consider that e.g. veganism is coded left-wing, but we don’t hear about companies turning vegan under external pressure
I think this is definitely a thing that happens, and actually is one of the primary strategies of animal activists these days. (Granted, the current stage of that strategy is more like “going cage free” or “meatless mondays”).
I suppose that increase in mazes means that if there is external pressure that appears politically fashionable, more people in the positions of relative power are motivated to (appear to) move in the direction of the pressure, whatever it is, because they don’t really care either way. This is how companies become woke, ecological, etc. (At least in appearance, because they will of course Goodhart the shit out of it.)
This sounds like the right mechanism to me.
A different question is, why pressure in the direction of e.g. social justice is stronger than pressure in direction of e.g. Christianity.
I do think “why do some things become politically fashionable?” is an important question. I think the answer to that is basically a whole other subfield just as complicated as the “how do mazes form?” question. But in answer to:
More activists? Better coordination? Strategic capture of important resources, such as media? Or maybe it is something completely different, e.g. social justice warriors pay less attention when their goals are Goodharted?
I think the answer is just “all of them” and “it depends.”
I suppose that increase in mazes means that if there is external pressure that appears politically fashionable, more people in the positions of relative power are motivated to (appear to) move in the direction of the pressure, whatever it is, because they don’t really care either way. This is how companies become woke, ecological, etc. (At least in appearance, because they will of course Goodhart the shit out of it.)
A different question is, why pressure in the direction of e.g. social justice is stronger than pressure in direction of e.g. Christianity. More activists? Better coordination? Strategic capture of important resources, such as media? Or maybe it is something completely different, e.g. social justice warriors pay less attention when their goals are Goodharted? (Firing one employee that said something politically incorrect is much cheaper than e.g. closing the shops on Sunday.) Before you say “left vs right”, consider that e.g. veganism is coded left-wing, but we don’t hear about companies turning vegan under external pressure. Or perhaps it’s all just a huge Keynesian beauty contest, where any thing, once successful, becomes fixed, and the social justice warriors just had lucky timing. I don’t know.
I think this is definitely a thing that happens, and actually is one of the primary strategies of animal activists these days. (Granted, the current stage of that strategy is more like “going cage free” or “meatless mondays”).
Along with WeWork, the Golden Globes (Oscars? One of the Hollywood awards shows...) had only vegetarian options for the meal.
I think an example was WeWork, and Adam Newman was attempting to also pressure others to do so.
This sounds like the right mechanism to me.
I do think “why do some things become politically fashionable?” is an important question. I think the answer to that is basically a whole other subfield just as complicated as the “how do mazes form?” question. But in answer to:
I think the answer is just “all of them” and “it depends.”