Out of curiosity, where do “I’m a humanist” and “I’m a transhumanist” scale?
But yes, outright claiming membership gratuitously for pretty much any wide group without further descriptors or evidence that this affiliation is somehow relevant to the discussion is usually not something to look favorably upon.
I wouldn’t quite say it in itself lowers my opinion score of someone, but it might give me some light evidence towards adopting a lower-opinion-estimate model of that someone, which effectively would reduce the “expected opinion for that expected mental model”.
Lately I automatically lower my opinion of anyone who self-identifies with a broad enough group without reservation.
Examples, in roughly descending order of opinion drop:
I’m a Democrat/Republican
I’m a feminist
I’m a patriot
I’m a LWer
I’m a consequentialist
I’m Eliezer Yudkowsky! Do you have any idea how many distinct versions of me there are in Tegmark Levels I through III?
Don’t anthropomorphize humans, and don’t identify with yourself.
37. Precisely 37. If you disagree then your conception of the identity “Eliezer Yudkowsky” is either too broad or too narrow. (So there!?)
I just want to say that it was hilariously confusing to see “I’m Eliezer Yudkowsky!” coming from you out of context in the Recent Comments Bar.
Sounds like it would be an improvement to skip blockquotes when producing that summary.
ℵ1?
Am I the only one seeing a Hebrew letter here? Does א have some numerical significance I’m not aware of?
No and yes.
/shudder
I’m a human. (IOW, I agree with what I think you’re thinking of, but I don’t think “broad enough” is the actual criterion you’re using.)
You are right, the idea of a group becomes meaningless at the two extremes. I need to rethink this. Thanks.
I got the same impression. ‘Broad’ can actually make the identification issue less significant (sometimes).
I’m meta-contrarian
hipster!
HIPSTERRRRRR
Out of curiosity, where do “I’m a humanist” and “I’m a transhumanist” scale?
But yes, outright claiming membership gratuitously for pretty much any wide group without further descriptors or evidence that this affiliation is somehow relevant to the discussion is usually not something to look favorably upon.
I wouldn’t quite say it in itself lowers my opinion score of someone, but it might give me some light evidence towards adopting a lower-opinion-estimate model of that someone, which effectively would reduce the “expected opinion for that expected mental model”.
Prediction: Either immediately above or immediately below “feminist”.