@meaning_enjoyer a successful malignant ideology will promise to make your life better while actually sabotaging it and making it worse in ways that seem to prove the ideology correct. the more you follow it, the worse everything gets, while you become more and more devoted to it. demonic even.
¡Jeb!x.com@meaning_enjoyer a successful malignant ideology will promise to make your life better while actually sabotaging it and making it worse in ways that seem to prove the ideology correct. the more you follow it, the worse everything gets, while you become more and more devoted to it. demonic even.
Goodhart’s law for ideologies: any false belief that cannot be questioned by adherents of an ideology will become increasingly central to that ideology.
Richard Ngox.comIdeologies very often end up producing the opposite of what they claim to want. Environmentalism, liberalism, communism, transhumanism, AI safety…
I call this the activist‘s curse. Understanding why it happens is one of the central problems of our time.
Twelve hypotheses:
Richard Ngox.comUnconsciously stumbling into trapped states of mind or lifestyle which can last years is all too easy.
Traps I see all the time:
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