A concept this reminds me of “Cheems[1] mindset”. This is the notion that many people just want to say why things will fail in order to justify why they don’t have to try.
I’m not sure if this is a useful concept (upvote downvote). I guess I think that something might inspire these people to change their minds, but right now they neither agree nor disagree and aren’t doing much.
I also link this to The Myth of the Rational Voterwhich suggests that people are rationally irrational. In this example. The readers of the New York Times have a lived experience that not much changes and that most grand plans fail. Of course William MacAskill will not be sucessful. It’s very cheap to say so, since they don’t deep down expect that to affect anything.
Instead, cheems mindset is automatically dismissing an idea on the basis that it cannot be done, or would be hard to do- it would be cheems mindset to oppose introducing rent control legislation because you were worried about staffing levels in [the housing department], for example.
The two most famous internet dogs two Shiba Inus who the intnet names Doge and Cheems. Doge (Dogecoin, much wow etc) is brave and strong. Cheems is cowardly and useless.
I would resize this image if I could. And yes, I know the image resize option exists. But it isn’t actually resizing.
A concept this reminds me of “Cheems[1] mindset”. This is the notion that many people just want to say why things will fail in order to justify why they don’t have to try.
I’m not sure if this is a useful concept (upvote downvote). I guess I think that something might inspire these people to change their minds, but right now they neither agree nor disagree and aren’t doing much.
I also link this to The Myth of the Rational Voter which suggests that people are rationally irrational. In this example. The readers of the New York Times have a lived experience that not much changes and that most grand plans fail. Of course William MacAskill will not be sucessful. It’s very cheap to say so, since they don’t deep down expect that to affect anything.
From https://normielisation.substack.com/p/cheems-mindset:
The two most famous internet dogs two Shiba Inus who the intnet names Doge and Cheems. Doge (Dogecoin, much wow etc) is brave and strong. Cheems is cowardly and useless.
I would resize this image if I could. And yes, I know the image resize option exists. But it isn’t actually resizing.