“The EA forum to me seems like it has an arms race of humble writing, where if you don’t convey your ideas humbly, your ideas look worse in comparison to others.”
Precisely!
And yeah, because of this, I do a lot of humility which I know will only contribute to the arms race but I still do it because I think the object-level message is important enough in that case. I was calling it “self-profiteering” only at recursion level 1.
I’m less optimistic about this post being “the start of a change”, but maybe it can cause some people to be less judgmental in their reading, and thereby notice when some seemingly brazen people are being exceedingly kind—like me!
Hm. Yeah maybe solution is to just write more comments. If you write more, you don’t have to risk your best arguments to pepper the forum culture with non-modesty. Like, for every comment we write with a natural vibe, at least we are bringing down the modesty-arms-race average.
Precisely!
And yeah, because of this, I do a lot of humility which I know will only contribute to the arms race but I still do it because I think the object-level message is important enough in that case. I was calling it “self-profiteering” only at recursion level 1.
I’m less optimistic about this post being “the start of a change”, but maybe it can cause some people to be less judgmental in their reading, and thereby notice when some seemingly brazen people are being exceedingly kind—like me!
Hm. Yeah maybe solution is to just write more comments. If you write more, you don’t have to risk your best arguments to pepper the forum culture with non-modesty. Like, for every comment we write with a natural vibe, at least we are bringing down the modesty-arms-race average.
Good idea! Inundate the forum! Already on it! ^^