He comes across to me as somebody who is so obviously not genuine that I’m left wondering whether his lack of genuineness is genuine. Have you looked at Intentional Insight’s About Us page?
I wonder if we mean different things by “genuine”. I find it quite easy to believe that his actual desires and his stated goals are the same, and I find him relatively transparent in his theories about how to other-optimize.
I’ll gladly admit that it’s not my thing, but that’s different from thinking that it’s evil or creepy.
I’m sad you feel this way. As I stated below, the “About Us” page lists testimonials of people who benefited from Intentional Insights content, and experts who endorse the content. This is pretty standard for nonprofit websites. Do you complain about CFAR’s testimonials?
… Aha, this page on the website says it’s a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It might be worth making that more explicit somewhere easier to find, because one thing I thought on looking over the website was “huh, that’s interesting: they seem to be trying hard to give the impression of being a nonprofit without actually saying in so many words that they are; I wonder why”.
Thanks for pointing that out. The curse of knowledge is such a powerful fallacy, and we fell prey to it.
I had the website revised to insert mentions of InIn being a nonprofit on the front page, and on the About Us page. Here’s the link to our Guidestar profile for anyone interested.
I would probably characterise International Insights as cargo cult marketing, blindly following the Three-Ring Binder[1]. It says “advertise on the social networks” so, by golly, we’ll advertise on the social networks! etc.
They built the sticks-and-mud control tower and are doing the parade ground drill. The airplanes with cargo should arrive any time now.
[1] “You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder—its DNA—xerox it, and embed it in the fertile lining of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left-turn lane.”—Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash.
Actually, we do have some airplanes arriving, if we equate airplanes to getting the rationality message out there to broad audiences, which is the whole point of Intentional Insights. A clear example is the placement of the above article in Lifehack, where it has been shared over 1K times, or this presentation to a humanist community group in Columbus, or this article in Salon. Our Advisory Board has attracted experts in the field of judgment and decision-making, education, and social work. We are doing exactly what we set out to do, so I think we can reasonably state that the airplanes are arriving.
And yes, we are using a Three-Ring Binder used by self-improvement groups and marketing gurus. That’s the strategies we chose to follow in order to get rationality out to a broad audience. So we are not blindly following that model, but quite intentionally and agentively, using the kind of methods that will achieve our goals.
I’m not crazy about Gleb, but he doesn’t ping my emotional immune system the way he does yours. I’m inclined to think there’s some pattern-matching going on, and people are carrying different sets of patterns.
I’m not saying that you or I are necessarily right or wrong, but it’s really hard to convey to someone else what’s going on with that sort of pattern-matching. Just asserting that your pattern-match is completely obvious doesn’t work.
One of my best friends is revolted by LW. We’ve spent some time on what the issue is, and we haven’t been able to figure it out.
He comes across as genuine?
He comes across to me as somebody who is so obviously not genuine that I’m left wondering whether his lack of genuineness is genuine. Have you looked at Intentional Insight’s About Us page?
I wonder if we mean different things by “genuine”. I find it quite easy to believe that his actual desires and his stated goals are the same, and I find him relatively transparent in his theories about how to other-optimize.
I’ll gladly admit that it’s not my thing, but that’s different from thinking that it’s evil or creepy.
I generally try to be consistent between my actual desires, my stated goals, and my actions, which exhibit my revealed preferences.
I’m sad you feel this way. As I stated below, the “About Us” page lists testimonials of people who benefited from Intentional Insights content, and experts who endorse the content. This is pretty standard for nonprofit websites. Do you complain about CFAR’s testimonials?
Just to be clear: is InIn a nonprofit?
… Aha, this page on the website says it’s a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It might be worth making that more explicit somewhere easier to find, because one thing I thought on looking over the website was “huh, that’s interesting: they seem to be trying hard to give the impression of being a nonprofit without actually saying in so many words that they are; I wonder why”.
Thanks for pointing that out. The curse of knowledge is such a powerful fallacy, and we fell prey to it.
I had the website revised to insert mentions of InIn being a nonprofit on the front page, and on the About Us page. Here’s the link to our Guidestar profile for anyone interested.
I would probably characterise International Insights as cargo cult marketing, blindly following the Three-Ring Binder[1]. It says “advertise on the social networks” so, by golly, we’ll advertise on the social networks! etc.
They built the sticks-and-mud control tower and are doing the parade ground drill. The airplanes with cargo should arrive any time now.
[1] “You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder—its DNA—xerox it, and embed it in the fertile lining of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left-turn lane.”—Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash.
Actually, we do have some airplanes arriving, if we equate airplanes to getting the rationality message out there to broad audiences, which is the whole point of Intentional Insights. A clear example is the placement of the above article in Lifehack, where it has been shared over 1K times, or this presentation to a humanist community group in Columbus, or this article in Salon. Our Advisory Board has attracted experts in the field of judgment and decision-making, education, and social work. We are doing exactly what we set out to do, so I think we can reasonably state that the airplanes are arriving.
And yes, we are using a Three-Ring Binder used by self-improvement groups and marketing gurus. That’s the strategies we chose to follow in order to get rationality out to a broad audience. So we are not blindly following that model, but quite intentionally and agentively, using the kind of methods that will achieve our goals.
Yeeeup.
I was giving him too much credit. He’s not intentionally bad at this, he’s -oblivious- to how bad he is at this.
I’m not crazy about Gleb, but he doesn’t ping my emotional immune system the way he does yours. I’m inclined to think there’s some pattern-matching going on, and people are carrying different sets of patterns.
I’m not saying that you or I are necessarily right or wrong, but it’s really hard to convey to someone else what’s going on with that sort of pattern-matching. Just asserting that your pattern-match is completely obvious doesn’t work.
One of my best friends is revolted by LW. We’ve spent some time on what the issue is, and we haven’t been able to figure it out.