CarlShulman comments on Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 14 July 2010 10:10:24AM 0 points [-]

Any hypotheses about the common factor?

Comment author: cousin_it 14 July 2010 12:25:47PM *  6 points [-]

Not sure. I was anti-status, anti-PUA, pro-equality until age 22 or so, and then changed my opinions on all these issues at around the same time (took a couple years). So maybe there is a common cause, but I have absolutely no idea what that cause could be.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 July 2010 05:14:35PM *  7 points [-]

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Comment author: CarlShulman 14 July 2010 01:27:39PM 5 points [-]

Reduced attachment to explicit verbal norms?

Comment author: JamesPfeiffer 14 July 2010 03:27:29PM 2 points [-]

My relevant life excerpt is similar to yours. The first two changed because of increased understanding of how humans coordinate and act socially. Not sure if there is a link to the third.

Comment author: Blueberry 14 July 2010 04:11:57PM 0 points [-]

I was anti-status, anti-PUA, pro-equality until age 22 or so, and then changed my opinions on all these issues

It's called "growing up."

Comment author: [deleted] 22 February 2011 02:58:27AM 1 point [-]

I wouldn't call it that, climbing the metacontrarian ladder seems to describe it much better.