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Virtue signalling is a good thing and an essential part of leadership.
Why do you see virtue signalling as a good thing? What good comes from empty posturing?
Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid
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Right, but that's a fictional example. No-one has actually unironically called a janitor a "sanitation engineer".
Not so fast: Brand Evangelist (Marketing) Outplacement consultant (someone who comes in to fire people) Flueologist (Chimneysweep) Loss prevention officer (Security guard) Waste removal engineer (trashman/trashwoman) https://www.businessinsider.com/recruiting-firm-shares-the-5...
So a clickbait piece in on a Buzzfeed-style site?
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Virtue signalling is a good thing and an essential part of leadership.
Why do you see virtue signalling as a good thing? What good comes from empty posturing?
Leaders obviously aren’t required to personally do the things they ask you to do. An army where the general dies in battle isn’t a good army.
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Why do you see virtue signalling as a good thing? What good comes from empty posturing?
Leaders obviously aren’t required to personally do the things they ask you to do. An army where the general dies in battle isn’t a good army.
I extremely disagree. Leaders that don't lead by example aren't real leaders, but demagouges and deceivers. To become a general, you must first be a soldier.
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#325I think the aritcle is pretty good (I have a strong disiagreement with one of the 50 terms, but otherwise I think they did a good job). I'm relatively new here at HN, but as a psychologist (who also dabbles in hacking) some of the reactions do support, sadly, the stereoytype that computer/engineer-types suffer anoagnosia (the lack of knowledge of what you do not know). Some engineers do not understand that the world…
> Soft sciences" actually are much harder than "hard sciences" in many ways
Because of that complexity, the methodologies used in those fields can’t be called “science.”
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Cool, as long as it's your thoughts and not mine. I have no problem with other people policing their own speech and thoughts. My problem starts when they start to enforce what they found on other people.
Do you recognize that there is a distinction between enforcement, and being told "using this particular form of speech is harmful to certain people - if you continue choosing to use it, you are choosing to present yourself as someone who values your own speech over someone else's comfort, and will be judged accordingly"? If so, then we're in broad agreement (though we may disagree about where the line between social…
What you just wrote caused me a lot of discomfort and yet you chose to write it. Because in order to think and discuss we need to risk causing discomfort to other people. I don't know what to tell you if that's not obvious to you.
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Not all OCD is extreme though, even when diagnosed.
Agree but it’s an insult to people that actually have it when it’s used casually. Like “bipolar” or “schizophrenic” also.
I see how it can be perceived this way, but I think it's because of the novelty of the condition (so people aren't used to it being casually used as much).
For more established conditions, we don't really feel that way, e.g. like, how:
"Turn the flashlight off, I'm going blind!"
"This jump scare gave me a heart attack!"
"Monday's make me depressed"
Are not really considered an insult to the blind, people with heart conditions, and the clinically depressed...
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> I can't easily identify whether or not I'm neurodivergent, because I'm not sure what it means or what the opposite would look like. Does anybody know? The people who are claiming to be neruodivergent would say its quite obvious to themselves (FWIW, the general definition is roughly ADHD or Autism, both of which have more concrete definitions). I was assuming the statement was about other people verifying the veraci…
Even if I'm a brain in a vat, I'm a brain in a vat that thinks it's hungry. But I'm not a brain in a vat that thinks it's neurodivergent or not neurodivergent because it doesn't know what that would mean in the first place, and it's not sure anybody else (assuming other brains in other vats exist) does either.
Not knowing the definition of a word is unrelated to how falsifiable it is.
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No, political correct is most often the opposite. It tries to obfuscate. Certainly not gain precision.
You're looking at it too literally. Enforcing others to change their language is mostly about power. Any feel good explanations of why it needs to change is justification for executing that power.
True, it is about the prerogative of interpretation and to backhandedly assign motivation to someone that uses certain terms to mostly discredit them.
There are some that just mean well, but even then, the method is questionable.