There might be a certain kind of people with high-quality suggestions on what novel things to investigate. (I expect these people have more to offer than lists of beliefs.) We have effective g-factor tests that allow to reliably find smart people in general population, and to construct groups of especially smart people. This post suggests that there might be a similarly effective way to estimate people’s rationality, a “cc-factor”, the ability to find and adopt correct beliefs even if they go against conventional wisdom, not necessarily as a skill, but as a predisposition. This may go a long way towards building the strength of the rationality cause.
There might be a certain kind of people with high-quality suggestions on what novel things to investigate. (I expect these people have more to offer than lists of beliefs.) We have effective g-factor tests that allow to reliably find smart people in general population, and to construct groups of especially smart people. This post suggests that there might be a similarly effective way to estimate people’s rationality, a “cc-factor”, the ability to find and adopt correct beliefs even if they go against conventional wisdom, not necessarily as a skill, but as a predisposition. This may go a long way towards building the strength of the rationality cause.