Yeah for what it’s worth, I think it’ll be very very very bad if we treat all moral views as equivalent. There’s a trivial sense in which you can flip the sign of any ethical position and still have a consistent framework!
it’s bad that we have so much homogeneity of mannerisms
Why? Mannerisms reduce communication overhead. If the norm within EA is to sometimes bob our heads up and down and sometimes shake our heads left and right to signal “yes”, this seems like a large recipe of misunderstanding, with dubious benefits. As it is, I’m not convinced that equivocating between British and American English definitions of the sameword gives us much expanded perspective commensurate with the costs.
If you agree that having mannerisms that equivocate between different macro-cultures isn’t super valuable, I’d like to understand why having mannerisms that equivocate between different micro-cultures is great. I find quite a few mannerisms common to EA (and more specific than AngloAmerican macroculture) to be valuable to reducing communication overhead, including but not limited to:
Saying numeric probabilities
Making bets
Certain types of jargon
General push towards quantification
Non-interrupting physical gestures of agreement during a group conversation (though I’ve also seen it in slam poetry groups, so certainly not unique to us!)
Yeah for what it’s worth, I think it’ll be very very very bad if we treat all moral views as equivalent. There’s a trivial sense in which you can flip the sign of any ethical position and still have a consistent framework!
Why? Mannerisms reduce communication overhead. If the norm within EA is to sometimes bob our heads up and down and sometimes shake our heads left and right to signal “yes”, this seems like a large recipe of misunderstanding, with dubious benefits. As it is, I’m not convinced that equivocating between British and American English definitions of the same word gives us much expanded perspective commensurate with the costs.
If you agree that having mannerisms that equivocate between different macro-cultures isn’t super valuable, I’d like to understand why having mannerisms that equivocate between different micro-cultures is great. I find quite a few mannerisms common to EA (and more specific than AngloAmerican macroculture) to be valuable to reducing communication overhead, including but not limited to:
Saying numeric probabilities
Making bets
Certain types of jargon
General push towards quantification
Non-interrupting physical gestures of agreement during a group conversation (though I’ve also seen it in slam poetry groups, so certainly not unique to us!)
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