Thanks for the comment (this could be it’s own post). This is a lot to get through, so I’ll comment on some aspects.
I have disagreeable tendencies, working on it but biased
I have some too! I think there are times when I’m fairly sure my intuitions lean overconfident in a research project (due to selection effects, at least), but it doesn’t seem worth debiasing, because I’m going to be doing it for a while no matter what, and not writing about its prioritization. I feel like I’m not a great example of a disagreeable or an assessor, but I sometimes can lean one way in different situations.
Instead of drawing conclusions for action at our individual levels, we need to aggregate our insights and decide on action as a collective.
I would definitely advocate for the appreciation of both disagreeables and assessors. I agree it’s easy for assessors to team up against disagreeables (for examples, when a company gets full of MBAs), particularly when they don’t respect them.
Some Venture Capitalists might be examples of assessors who appreciate and have learned to work with disagreeables. I’m sure they spend a lot of time thinking, “Person X seems slightly insane, but no one else is crazy enough to make a startup in this space, and the downside for us is limited.”
As of right now, only very high status or privileged people really say what they think and most others defer to the authorities to ensure their social survival.
This clearly seems bad to me. For what it’s worth, I don’t feel like I have to hide that much that I think, though maybe I’m somewhat high status. Sadly, I know that high-status people sometimes can say even less than low-status people, because they have more people paying attention and more to lose. I think we really could use improved epistemic setups somehow.
Thanks for the comment (this could be it’s own post). This is a lot to get through, so I’ll comment on some aspects.
I have some too! I think there are times when I’m fairly sure my intuitions lean overconfident in a research project (due to selection effects, at least), but it doesn’t seem worth debiasing, because I’m going to be doing it for a while no matter what, and not writing about its prioritization. I feel like I’m not a great example of a disagreeable or an assessor, but I sometimes can lean one way in different situations.
I would definitely advocate for the appreciation of both disagreeables and assessors. I agree it’s easy for assessors to team up against disagreeables (for examples, when a company gets full of MBAs), particularly when they don’t respect them.
Some Venture Capitalists might be examples of assessors who appreciate and have learned to work with disagreeables. I’m sure they spend a lot of time thinking, “Person X seems slightly insane, but no one else is crazy enough to make a startup in this space, and the downside for us is limited.”
This clearly seems bad to me. For what it’s worth, I don’t feel like I have to hide that much that I think, though maybe I’m somewhat high status. Sadly, I know that high-status people sometimes can say even less than low-status people, because they have more people paying attention and more to lose. I think we really could use improved epistemic setups somehow.