Viliam comments on Mark Xu’s Shortform

[Viliam]

Alternative taxonomy:

• rationalists belonging to Eliezer

• cryopreserved rationalists

• rationalists trained by CFAR

• aspiring rationalists

• rationalists working for MIRI

• legendary rationalists

• metarationalists

• those commenting on this taxonomy

• those that tweet as if they were mad

• Bayesians

• et cetera

• Zvi

• those that from afar look like paperclips

:)

[Mark Xu]

This made me chuckle. More humor

• Rationalists taxonomizing rationalists

• Mesa-rationalists (the mesa-optimizers inside rationalists)

• carrier pigeon rationalists

• proto-rationalists

• not-yet-born rationalists

• literal rats

• frequentists

• group-house rationalists

• EA forum rationalists

• academic rationalists

• meme rationalists

:)

[Ben Pace]

I like this one.