🧵 View Thread
🧵 Thread (14 tweets)
@uberstuber oddly-- it sounds to me like a book written in an alternate universe where rationalists have social capital and an outgroup-member wrote a book to profit from the trend so i'd expect some pseudoscience but also some potentially valuable insights-from-normies on how to just live
@goblinodds thought I was a mop but looks like I was a sociopath the whole time https://t.co/X9fMCiUFCr
I started writing a thing: https://t.co/Tia1KEn7y2
@uberstuber But this wouldn't help someone that far gone, because the trouble isn't any conceptual thing, it's that they've trained themselves not to notice their feelings. And per EY your feelings *are* your values so if you've stopped feeling them you de facto don't know what you want.
@uberstuber The real cure is probably shaped like "train yourself to associate ignoring your feelings with low status, expose yourself to environments where conspicuously ignoring your feelings as costly signaling is seen as cringe, etc" and let ego + social mirroring do the rest.
@uberstuber Only the most hardened cringemeister explicitly advocates ignoring your feelings, taking sys2 as sole authority. It's just that conspicuously ignoring your feelings to seem more rational is cheaper than actually being rational, so people will do it as a drinking contest.
@uberstuber "Hey look at me, I'm so RATIONAL right now" Bob says as he makes his friends and family miserable. That guy must be really really dedicated if he's willing to sacrifice so much for rationality, what a rational person! This is toxic bad no good and you want to get away from it.
@uberstuber Worse still, effective rationality is often invisible while the toxic drinking contest stuff is obnoxious and loudly announces its presence, ensuring that it's the thing which is memetically fit while silent virtue withers.