Even if they only work in modern society, one of the millions of modern people who wanted financial, social, and romantic success before you would have come up with them.
Nobody is claiming that everything around rationalist circles is completely new or invented by them. It’s often looked to me more like separating the more and less useful stuff with various combinations of bottom-up and top-down approaches.
Additionally, I’d like to also identify as someone who is definitely in a much much better place now because they discovered LW almost a decade ago even though I also struggle with akrasia and do less to improve myself than I’d like, I’m very sure that just going to therapy wouldn’t have improved my outcomes in so many areas, especially financially.
Nobody is claiming that everything around rationalist circles is completely new or invented by them. It’s often looked to me more like separating the more and less useful stuff with various combinations of bottom-up and top-down approaches.
Additionally, I’d like to also identify as someone who is definitely in a much much better place now because they discovered LW almost a decade ago even though I also struggle with akrasia and do less to improve myself than I’d like, I’m very sure that just going to therapy wouldn’t have improved my outcomes in so many areas, especially financially.