#rationality #society #cooperation # [[Epistemic status]] #schroedinger-uncertain 04/07/2022 # Related Old beliefs: - [[Fuck you data privacy]] # Data privacy When you walk in the street, do people have to "accept cookies" in order to let you watch them? Listen to them? Smell them? Touch them? I recently updated my belief concerning data privacy, I used to think we should all share everything in our [[Mind|mind]], but after experimenting with this I saw it caused some social [[Friction|friction]]. Everyone has a different [[The Map is not the Territory|map of the territory]] and exposing your map in an asynchronous fashion prevent your from getting real-time feedback, so people build a map of you that is wrong, which leads to [[Friction|friction]]. My new solution is to reduce [[Getting stuck in local minima|asynchronous-non-challenged]] [[Memetic|meme]]s, and try more to expose these into the savannah. ## Asynchronous honesty prevent [[Reciprocation|reciprocation]] In [[Eliezer Yudkowsky - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]], Draco Malfoy offers a gift to Harry which makes him feel forced to reciprocate: a very personal thing about himself. >The same could be said of Draco’s clever use of **reciprocation pressure with an unsolicited gift**, a technique which Harry had read about in his social psychology books If you throw very personal thoughts in the savannah in an asynchronous fashion, you miss the opportunity of reciprocation pressure. # External links