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QC@QiaochuYuan• 5 months ago

on reflection i think i agree, the story is whatever, a private moment between two people, but posting the story and the story going viral meaningfully affects the integrity of norms against lying and stealing. at that point it's not private anymore

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crystal@crystalxduan• 5 months ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan so what you’re saying is if the gestapo ask you if your friends here you’d say yeah just so you wouldn’t be lying eh

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• 5 months ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan I think a lot of people are falling for the virality fallacy where they assume that Brent is eg bragging or encouraging something when really this was a throwaway post that would seem very different if it had got 5 likes

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Kingly Box@UntilTrees• 5 months ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan idk, I'm cold on anything that looks like "we shouldn't talk about X publicly because of second order effects"

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Kingly Box@UntilTrees• 5 months ago

Replying to @UntilTrees

@QiaochuYuan norms are resilient, trying to protect them through fear/hiding feels like anxious attachment and also like rationalists

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QC@QiaochuYuan• 5 months ago

Replying to @UntilTrees

@UntilTrees i feel deeply misunderstood by this and am angry

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