I actually (somewhat) agree—I’m using HP terminology out of experience and because it allows me to gesture at a complicated thingy with few words and have some built in community mythology to support it. BUT this definitely has costs, and if anyone has ideas for a name for this thing that is
a) catchy
b) communicates the gist of the idea, but
c) still leaves people wanting to know more without immediately thinking they know what the project is entirely about but being wrong, so they ask following questions
I would probably be in favor of such a name change.
Regular I’m fairly certain phrasing things like Harry Potter reference is actually bad for the rationalist community.
I actually (somewhat) agree—I’m using HP terminology out of experience and because it allows me to gesture at a complicated thingy with few words and have some built in community mythology to support it. BUT this definitely has costs, and if anyone has ideas for a name for this thing that is
a) catchy b) communicates the gist of the idea, but c) still leaves people wanting to know more without immediately thinking they know what the project is entirely about but being wrong, so they ask following questions
I would probably be in favor of such a name change.
Now I’m curious why this was retracted?