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[earlgraytay]

I have a lot of effective altruists on my tumblr dashboard. I also have a lot of people who have serious criticisms of effective altruism on my tumblr dashboard. This means I see them bicker a lot about how to do charity and what the right way to help people is. And there's this pattern I keep seeing over and over again where the EAs and the people who don't like EA keep getting into huge arguments-- because they're not actually talking to each other.

( TLDR: Rational debate is hard. )

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[sophus]

Most of my online friends are rationalist-adjacent, so I suppose that makes me rationalist-adjacent-adjacent. Thus:
Hello everyone, I'm sophus! I'm from the glowfic corner of the rodent-sphere. If you know me, it's probably from Amentumblr; I'm also Sophus#7079 on Discord and sophus-b on realblr if you've met me there.

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The tumblr function that I most miss here on Dreamwidth is the like button; it was nice to have a low spoons way to show my appreciation of someone's post. However, I've anecdotally heard that some people are using comments with only "+1" and/or "<3" as a kludgy equivalent.

I know that executive dysfunction is fairly common amongst my corner of the diaspora, at least, and I think this idea merits discussion: adopting this, or a similar social norm for the community here would be valuable. I like positive feedback in any form, and I know many others here do too, so a solution that makes it easier to give positive feedback would be extremely useful.

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[ethnianmandarin]

ppl sure keep accusing me of being rationalist-adjacent, so im going to sit down at this lunch table

this is a weird fucking platform. i never used it the first time round.