One of the things that enticed me about LessWrong is a concrete and easy way to call someone a “rationalist,” namely someone who has read the three books from the Library section (Sequences, HPMOR, and The Codex.)
After that, the curated sequences and the concepts page. I just think is a wonderfully easy way to define concepts, and create a shared vocabulary while building on top of it. I hope that with time it gets expanded to encompass more books and sequences.
The term rationalist then falls short but this is how I easily can separate people and am sympathetic to those who want to change the name.
One of the things that enticed me about LessWrong is a concrete and easy way to call someone a “rationalist,” namely someone who has read the three books from the Library section (Sequences, HPMOR, and The Codex.)
After that, the curated sequences and the concepts page. I just think is a wonderfully easy way to define concepts, and create a shared vocabulary while building on top of it. I hope that with time it gets expanded to encompass more books and sequences.
The term rationalist then falls short but this is how I easily can separate people and am sympathetic to those who want to change the name.