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18 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
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20 Feb
I'm currently reading "The Pragmatist's Guide to Sexuality", in which the authors outline a central framework:

"Arousal pathways should be thought of as existing in one of three states: positive, neutral, and negative. Negative arousal is experienced as a 'gross' sensation."
Broadly, they are conceptualizing the disgust reaction that a person might have to various sexual acts (say incest, or necrophilia) as something like "inverse arousal." The same basic thing, but with the sign flipped.
I, personally, apparently have a much lower sex drive than most men: I seem to be much less compelled by arousal, or typically have a weaker form of arousal, or something.

If we're gonna label me, it's not far off to say that I'm asexual. I'm comparatively uninterested in sex.
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18 Feb
@ben_r_hoffman, @jessi_cata, I took some time / emotional space to reflect on if I was doing something in this and related tweets that I would or should consider objectionable.

Having done so, I currently think

1) I did not do anything objectionable according to my ethics and discourse norms,

2) that there were better and more skillful things that I could have done instead, but

3) I endorse not having spent more time finding those better things.
My understanding of your critique is something like

"You, Eli, were optimizing for social harmony, and so were willing to paper over places where you disagree with Glen, and were therefore misinforming him and others."
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17 Feb
This tweet helped me put into focus @glenweyl objections to the rationality community visa vie Neoreaction, which had previously seemed bizarre to me.
He seemed to be emphasizing the (I claim!) tenuous historical and social connection between the rationalists and Neoreaction.
(My understanding of the connection: Lots of Neoreactionaries read LessWrong back in the day (because it was great!), but very few LessWrongers were, or are, Neoreactionaries.
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17 Feb
Is there any particular reason why I should assign more credibility to Moral Mazes / Robert Jackall than I would to the work of any other sociologist?
(My prior on sociologists is that they sometimes produce useful frameworks, but generally rely on subjective hard-to-verify and especially theory-laden methodology, and are very often straightforwardly ideologically motivated.)
I imagine that someone else could write a different book, based on the same kind of anthropological research, that highlights different features of the corporate world, to tell the opposite story.
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13 Feb
This guy drives around America in an RV, doing interviews with Americans of all stripes.

His videos are really worth checking out. They're among the best window I know into the lives of and minds of people that I never meet.

They're edited to be funny. But they're also honest.

As near as I can tell, he's just actually interested in the cultural anthropology of it. Not pushing a particular agenda or narrative. He just shows up and lets people talk.
Which is so rare that I can't think of another example?

(I would love to be introduced to more.)
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13 Feb
What would have happened if a single US state had said "screw the FDA" and ordered [state population] doses of the Monderna vaccine for delivery in March?
Obviously this would be illegal, but what happens next?

Does the FDA sue Moderna?
If so, how would it have gone down? I'm sure a large number of think pieces would be written about how this was "reckless" and "irresponsible".

But also, the state government could point out how every person in that state, who wanted a vaccine, has gotten a vaccine.
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