Here’s some more evidence I got in favor of the fact that this is a particularly good book to give to new people. So far, the Rational Animations video about the “Rethinking Identity” section is the channel’s most appreciated video in terms of comments, both on Reddit and YT. Also, I’m seeing comments suggesting that at least some people deeply understand and incorporate the message. On r/videos, which is a pretty generalist sub, I’m finding some uplifting (for me) interactions:
I’ve seen some criticism of this book in EA/Rationality spaces and in some Amazon reviews about the fact that it uses too much internet culture as examples and ties too much with current internet discourse. But I think this is potentially something good. It could achieve at least three things: 1. provide real examples (in a non-aggressive way) that are likely to be somewhat associated with people’s identities, thus maybe making them break from this pattern. 2. Be a guide and act as example on how to achieve non-inflammatory non-mind-killing discourse on potentially sensitive topics, and 3. be read more because it ties deeply with how discourse is happening on the internet in recent years. Before obtaining real-world evidence I wouldn’t necessarily bet on the fact that it achieves these positive effects, but after seeing reactions in the wild I’m more positive. The negative examples I’ve seen are fewer and generally downvoted.
Here’s some more evidence I got in favor of the fact that this is a particularly good book to give to new people. So far, the Rational Animations video about the “Rethinking Identity” section is the channel’s most appreciated video in terms of comments, both on Reddit and YT. Also, I’m seeing comments suggesting that at least some people deeply understand and incorporate the message. On r/videos, which is a pretty generalist sub, I’m finding some uplifting (for me) interactions:
I’ve seen some criticism of this book in EA/Rationality spaces and in some Amazon reviews about the fact that it uses too much internet culture as examples and ties too much with current internet discourse. But I think this is potentially something good. It could achieve at least three things: 1. provide real examples (in a non-aggressive way) that are likely to be somewhat associated with people’s identities, thus maybe making them break from this pattern. 2. Be a guide and act as example on how to achieve non-inflammatory non-mind-killing discourse on potentially sensitive topics, and 3. be read more because it ties deeply with how discourse is happening on the internet in recent years. Before obtaining real-world evidence I wouldn’t necessarily bet on the fact that it achieves these positive effects, but after seeing reactions in the wild I’m more positive. The negative examples I’ve seen are fewer and generally downvoted.