The Case For Bullying

And for a visceral description of a kind of bullying that's plainly bad, read the beginning of Worm: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/

Hi Justin, I already read both the posts you linked there.

My desire for Truth is overwhelmingly strong, I would change my stance if anyone would present some actual counter-arguments that go beyond the surface level.

Will give longer rebuttal later, am currently on vacation in Spain 🤝

Getting down-voted to -27 is an achievement. Most things judged 'bad AI takes' only go to -11 or so, even that recent  P=NP proof only got to -25. Of course, if the author is right, then downvoting further is providing helpful incentives to him. 

I think that bullying is quite distinct from status hierarchies. The latter are unavoidable. There will always be some clique of cool kids in the class who will not invite the non-cool kids to their parties. This is ok. Sometimes, status is correlated with behaviors which are pro-social (kids not smoking; donating to EA), sometimes it is correlated with behaviors which are net-negative (kids smoking; serving in the SS). I was not part of the cool kids circle, and I was fine with that. Live and let live and all that. 

'Bullying' has a distinct negative connotation. The central example is someone who is targeted for sport for being different from the others. The bullies don't want the victims to change their ways, they just like to make their life miserable for thrills. I am sure that sometimes it unintentionally helps their victim, if you push enough people, at some point you are bound to push someone out of the path of a car or bullet. In the grand scheme of things, the bullies are however net negative for their victims and society overall.