Three Risks of Thinking Out Loud
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October 4th, 2021
Here are at least three risks of thinking out loud on the internet…
Getting cancelled/censored
Getting trolled/harassed
Releasing information hazards
The latter is Nick Bostrom’s term, which he defines as: risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm.
There are probably more risks, these are the three that are coming up for me though, especially when thinking about writing something that falls on a culture war battlefront. Going meta on the culture war happens to be one of my weird specialties, and while I previously announced that I was “exiting the culture war,” I am still called to process what is happening.
Especially this COVID culture war, which is something that really needs to be processed. The emotions are fever-pitch because the stakes are so high: people are dying, hospitals are being overburdened, lockdowns are around the corner, society is segregated, and people are losing their jobs.
Offering a heterodox perspective in this environment will likely lead to one of the three things mentioned at the beginning of this entry. Even applying the principle of charity to a heterodox perspective will lead to one of those things.
“Holding the meta” might not be possible anymore without substantial blowback.
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