social psychology
Daily Alchemy: Can we make this controversy good?
9d ago“Was Mother Jones right to call a famous social psychology study 'all a lie'?”
- Ambiguously...
No honey. You mistake "tokens" to represent en masse. That's not how the real world works. The mass majority of minority groups are unwilling to play Uncle Tom to make you feel better about yourself.... - josefine...
Oh yeah, that definitely resonates more. It actually feels like another #deeptake :) I think I'm also getting from you that there's some value for you in honesty around reputation, such that one actually can rely on it within the system.... Love this invitation, and I'll bite. Hmm, first place my mind goes: optics feels like an instance inside a larger category of taking the social fabric as something to be manipulated, to try to cause people to think particular things or feel particular ways about you or some... Complexity def gets higher and reason why so many of us fall back to default patterns/norms or keep things super small sizes. Some friends of mine turned me towards https://mikikashtan.org/ work that seems interesting.... I think keeping this tension and question alive in our awareness, and then running experiments that come from staying present with the tension (desire for the fun/safe/curated, and idea that it won’t last), will help it last longer, and potentially give us insight into... I am considering that the "uptrust" is similar to reddit. "uptrust" means yeah i want more of this!” and "downtrust" means "nope, less of that." i thought i wanted a like a button initially, but i notice that I don’t have that same desire when I’m on reddit.... Austin is so strange. There’s a kool-aid here that strangely perpetuates until it’s not really a koolaid anymore: be interesting, be friendly, make friends, have fun. I think all the people moving here keeps a constant state of excitement and openness.... I think you’re comparing strange things here. Right now we have to vote for unconsciousness (die in secret) to get over your hump and the cost is people are being shamed to stay alive.... totally agree. the thing i didn’t reveal above that I wanted to post an extreme perspective on something nuanced to see what would happen with scores. 🤠 generally i think attraction is complex.... This reminds me of a conversation I recently had where a few layers down they realized they were afraid of being a terrible person and dying alone. And I was like, excellent, it sounds like making peace with being a terrible person and dying alone will free up a lot of energy for... say i’ve got a friend Andy who wants to spend every day together hanging out. I like Andy so much that I want to see him once a month. Let’s say I compromise my boundaries and I hang with him a few times a week. I’m not showing up honestly as me, so who is andy connecting with?...