I want to make an analogy to personality types. Lots of humans believe there is one single personality type. “Everyone thinks and reacts more or less like me.” Given this starting point, upgrading to thinking there are 4 or 16 or whatever types of people is a great update. Lists of different conflict resolution styles, or different love languages, etc is helpful in the same way.
However, the same system can become harmfull if after a person learns about them, they get stuck, and refuse to move on to even more nuanced understandings, and insist that the dimensions covered by the system they learned, is the only ones that exists.
Overall, I think Scott Aronsons post is good.
I expect outsiders who read it will update from thinking there are 1 AIS camp to thinking there are 2 AIS camps. Which is an update in the right direction.
I expect insiders who read it to notice “hey, I agree with one side on some points and the other side on some point” and correctly conclude that the picture of two camps is an oversimplification.
I want to make an analogy to personality types. Lots of humans believe there is one single personality type. “Everyone thinks and reacts more or less like me.” Given this starting point, upgrading to thinking there are 4 or 16 or whatever types of people is a great update. Lists of different conflict resolution styles, or different love languages, etc is helpful in the same way.
However, the same system can become harmfull if after a person learns about them, they get stuck, and refuse to move on to even more nuanced understandings, and insist that the dimensions covered by the system they learned, is the only ones that exists.
Overall, I think Scott Aronsons post is good.
I expect outsiders who read it will update from thinking there are 1 AIS camp to thinking there are 2 AIS camps. Which is an update in the right direction.
I expect insiders who read it to notice “hey, I agree with one side on some points and the other side on some point” and correctly conclude that the picture of two camps is an oversimplification.