Good! I’m pleased to see an example of LW going meta on itself in this vein.
As an extension, note that there’s a well-established pattern by which people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder tend to attract (and be attracted to) people with Borderline Personality Disorder. An evocative line from The Last Psychiatrist:
The narcissist creates an identity, then tries to force everyone else to buy into it. The borderline waits to meet someone, and then constructs a personality suitable to that person....
The narcissist thrives with the borderline because she provides for him the validation that he is, in fact, the lead; the borderline thrives with the narcissist because he defines her. And, as she will tell you every single time, without fail: “you don’t know him like I do.” Everyone else judges his behavior; but the borderline is judging his version of himself that she has accepted.”
I’d invite folks to consider what it would look like if a few “intellectual narcissists” attracted a following of “intellectual borderlines,” in particular what the individuals’ personalities would look like in Near, and what the memetics of that community would look like.
An intellectual narcissist will tend to make wrong predictions about things they don’t fully understand, and intellectual borderlines will tend to believe those predictions.
I’m not sure what you mean by “look like in Near”.
Thanks for pointing out this is going meta. Now I can go one level more meta.
Good! I’m pleased to see an example of LW going meta on itself in this vein.
As an extension, note that there’s a well-established pattern by which people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder tend to attract (and be attracted to) people with Borderline Personality Disorder. An evocative line from The Last Psychiatrist:
I’d invite folks to consider what it would look like if a few “intellectual narcissists” attracted a following of “intellectual borderlines,” in particular what the individuals’ personalities would look like in Near, and what the memetics of that community would look like.
An intellectual narcissist will tend to make wrong predictions about things they don’t fully understand, and intellectual borderlines will tend to believe those predictions.
I’m not sure what you mean by “look like in Near”.
Thanks for pointing out this is going meta. Now I can go one level more meta.