What the article is actually mostly promoting is Intentional Insights (6 links from the text, embedded video, 2 links to merchandise) much more than it’s Less Wrong (one link), Rationality Dojo (one link, name mentioned in text), or “Rationality: From AI to Zombies” (one link).
That count is a bit off, as Less Wrong is directly mentioned in the text and has two links, whereas Intentional Insights is not mentioned in the text. But sure, the article also happens to be highlighting Intentional Insights. After all, the large majority of readers on Lifehack would be better served in improving their rationality by going to InIn’s website, as there is a much smaller inference gap there than on LW itself. After they become more advanced, that’s the time to send them to Less Wrong, Clearer Thinking, CFAR, and other advanced rational thinking venues.
Oh yes, I missed one link-with-name to Less Wrong; my apologies. I didn’t claim that InIn is mentioned in the text so I’m not sure what you’re suggesting is “off” there—but if you open up the page, the first three bits of non-advertisement text you see are from the video at the start, and they are (1) “Intentional Insights: Are you In?”, (2) “www.intentionalinsights.org″, and (3) “3 Steps to Living Intentionally”—that last being a phrase I have never heard anywhere other than in InIn promotional material. So it’s not like InIn is starving for mentions in the text.
For the avoidance of doubt, I am not saying there’s anything wrong with promoting your organization. That’s what startup founders do, and there are good reasons why. I just think there’s something ever so slightly misleading about describing something as an article “promoting X, Y, and Z”, when actually the main thing it’s promoting is something else.
Ah, I see that the concern was with the title. I was excited to be able to get links to these included in the Lifehack article, as previously editors had cut out such links. I pushed back against them this time, and made a case for including them as a way of growing mentally stronger, and thus was able to get them in. So perhaps a longer explanation regarding that would have helped. I’ll edit the post to reflect that.
What the article is actually mostly promoting is Intentional Insights (6 links from the text, embedded video, 2 links to merchandise) much more than it’s Less Wrong (one link), Rationality Dojo (one link, name mentioned in text), or “Rationality: From AI to Zombies” (one link).
That count is a bit off, as Less Wrong is directly mentioned in the text and has two links, whereas Intentional Insights is not mentioned in the text. But sure, the article also happens to be highlighting Intentional Insights. After all, the large majority of readers on Lifehack would be better served in improving their rationality by going to InIn’s website, as there is a much smaller inference gap there than on LW itself. After they become more advanced, that’s the time to send them to Less Wrong, Clearer Thinking, CFAR, and other advanced rational thinking venues.
Oh yes, I missed one link-with-name to Less Wrong; my apologies. I didn’t claim that InIn is mentioned in the text so I’m not sure what you’re suggesting is “off” there—but if you open up the page, the first three bits of non-advertisement text you see are from the video at the start, and they are (1) “Intentional Insights: Are you In?”, (2) “www.intentionalinsights.org″, and (3) “3 Steps to Living Intentionally”—that last being a phrase I have never heard anywhere other than in InIn promotional material. So it’s not like InIn is starving for mentions in the text.
For the avoidance of doubt, I am not saying there’s anything wrong with promoting your organization. That’s what startup founders do, and there are good reasons why. I just think there’s something ever so slightly misleading about describing something as an article “promoting X, Y, and Z”, when actually the main thing it’s promoting is something else.
Ah, I see that the concern was with the title. I was excited to be able to get links to these included in the Lifehack article, as previously editors had cut out such links. I pushed back against them this time, and made a case for including them as a way of growing mentally stronger, and thus was able to get them in. So perhaps a longer explanation regarding that would have helped. I’ll edit the post to reflect that.