I have this concept I’ve been calling “kayfabe inversion” where attempts to create a social reality that $P$ accidentally enforces $\not P$. The EA vibe of “minimize deference, always criticize your leaders” may just be, by inscrutable social pressures, increasing deference and hero worship and so on. Spurred by my housemate’s view of DoD and it’s ecosystem of contractors (because their dad has a long career in it) that perhaps the military’s explicit deference and hierarchies actually make it easier to do meaningful criticism of or disagreement with leaders, compared to the implicit hierarchies that emerge when you say that you want to minimize deference.
Something along these lines.
Perhaps this hypothesis is made clear by a close reading of tyranny of structurelessness, idk.
I have this concept I’ve been calling “kayfabe inversion” where attempts to create a social reality that $P$ accidentally enforces $\not P$. The EA vibe of “minimize deference, always criticize your leaders” may just be, by inscrutable social pressures, increasing deference and hero worship and so on. Spurred by my housemate’s view of DoD and it’s ecosystem of contractors (because their dad has a long career in it) that perhaps the military’s explicit deference and hierarchies actually make it easier to do meaningful criticism of or disagreement with leaders, compared to the implicit hierarchies that emerge when you say that you want to minimize deference.
Something along these lines.
Perhaps this hypothesis is made clear by a close reading of tyranny of structurelessness, idk.
Could I bother you to rephrase “$P$ accidentally enforces $\not P$”? I don’t know what you mean by using these symbols.
Oh sorry I just meant a general form for “any arbitrary quality a community may wish to cultivate”