“What Goes Without Saying” By Sarahconstantin LessWrong (Curated & Popular) podcast

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There are people I can talk to, where all of the following statements are obvious. They go without saying. We can just “be reasonable” together, with the context taken for granted.
And then there are people who…don’t seem to be on the same page at all.

There's a real way to do anything, and a fake way; we need to make sure we’re doing the real version.

Concepts like Goodhart's Law, cargo-culting, greenwashing, hype cycles, Sturgeon's Law, even bullshit jobs1 are all pointing at the basic understanding that it's easier to seem good than to be good, that the world is full of things that merely appear good but aren’t really, and that it's important to vigilantly sift out the real from the fake.
This feels obvious! This feels like something that should not be contentious!
If anything, I often get frustrated with chronic pessimists [...]
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First published:
December 20th, 2024
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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sAcPTiN86fAMSA599/what-goes-without-saying
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“What Goes Without Saying” by sarahconstantin

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)

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There are people I can talk to, where all of the following statements are obvious. They go without saying. We can just “be reasonable” together, with the context taken for granted.
And then there are people who…don’t seem to be on the same page at all.

There's a real way to do anything, and a fake way; we need to make sure we’re doing the real version.

Concepts like Goodhart's Law, cargo-culting, greenwashing, hype cycles, Sturgeon's Law, even bullshit jobs1 are all pointing at the basic understanding that it's easier to seem good than to be good, that the world is full of things that merely appear good but aren’t really, and that it's important to vigilantly sift out the real from the fake.
This feels obvious! This feels like something that should not be contentious!
If anything, I often get frustrated with chronic pessimists [...]
---
First published:
December 20th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sAcPTiN86fAMSA599/what-goes-without-saying
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

… continue reading

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