#itll happen any time you respond to someone questioning your assumptions with hostility instead of reflection
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similar to Goodhart's Law (when a measure becomes a target, it fails as a measure), we should also have "when a critique becomes a shibboleth, it stops being critique"
#to explain/elaborate:#critique is about questioning our understanding and assumptions about something#looking at it more deeply and considering not just what something seems to be but what it is and how it exists in the world#a shibboleth on the other hand is a marker of an in-group#its a way of signaling to others that you too are a part of the group and that you belong#and that anyone who doesnt use the shibboleth doesnt#but when something that was once a critique (a subjective examination of an idea) becomes a shibboleth (a rigid membership symbol)#you can no longer work through the ideas presented by the critique because even that is interpreted as out-group behavior#even if you broadly agree with what the shibboleth is indicating you cant question any aspect of it or youre immediately “cast out”#and the people solidly within have no reason to question themselves because theyre the in-group. they belong#this was prompted by discussions of ai art but its hardly limited to it#itll happen any time you respond to someone questioning your assumptions with hostility instead of reflection#and its where all kinds of nonsense incestuous logic-loops come from#anyway thanks for readin love you mwah
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