Potentially important question: What name should I use for the mailing list and/or blog I’m setting up?
It sounds like a silly, but I actually get annoyed every time I see the obnoxiously long “Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong NYC Rationality Group” full name that was chosen when we created the google group. I don’t expect the mailing list to take off as a community, but on the off chance it does I’d rather it have a simple, nice sounding name that’s easy to identify with, and which I don’t have to fight inertia in order to change later.
The two options are to highlight the process of creating culture (Crafting Culture? Culture Design? Ritual Design?), or to highlight the actual culture I want to create (Rational Culture would sound nice to me, except I’m still sort of trying to shed the word “rationalist”, and it also steps on the toes of ‘Ethical Culture’, a group I may be interacting with)
If you’re going for the actual culture highlighting, I’d recommend basing it off the ‘something to protect’ idea rather than ‘rationalist’. In the end, that’s really why we’re doing all this. Culture (building) for the Future. Or use the ‘i want to become stronger’ meme.
On the other hand, Ritual for Rationality has a nice ring to it. Or use the word Meme. Everybody likes the word Meme!
Paranoid Meme-ifying
Meme-ifying Rituals for the Epistemologically Paranoid.
That last one’s a little wordy, isn’t it? Probably not a correct use of the word epistemologically either, if it is indeed a word.
I’m going for something simple and catchy. ‘Rational Ritual’ isn’t bad for certain contexts. I intend the blog to be useful for anyone building their own culture, and it may be useful to promote the idea of rituals that don’t compromise rationality, even if rationality isn’t what you’re actually talking about.
Potentially important question: What name should I use for the mailing list and/or blog I’m setting up?
It sounds like a silly, but I actually get annoyed every time I see the obnoxiously long “Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong NYC Rationality Group” full name that was chosen when we created the google group. I don’t expect the mailing list to take off as a community, but on the off chance it does I’d rather it have a simple, nice sounding name that’s easy to identify with, and which I don’t have to fight inertia in order to change later.
The two options are to highlight the process of creating culture (Crafting Culture? Culture Design? Ritual Design?), or to highlight the actual culture I want to create (Rational Culture would sound nice to me, except I’m still sort of trying to shed the word “rationalist”, and it also steps on the toes of ‘Ethical Culture’, a group I may be interacting with)
If you’re going for the actual culture highlighting, I’d recommend basing it off the ‘something to protect’ idea rather than ‘rationalist’. In the end, that’s really why we’re doing all this. Culture (building) for the Future. Or use the ‘i want to become stronger’ meme.
On the other hand, Ritual for Rationality has a nice ring to it. Or use the word Meme. Everybody likes the word Meme!
Paranoid Meme-ifying
Meme-ifying Rituals for the Epistemologically Paranoid.
That last one’s a little wordy, isn’t it? Probably not a correct use of the word epistemologically either, if it is indeed a word.
I’m going for something simple and catchy. ‘Rational Ritual’ isn’t bad for certain contexts. I intend the blog to be useful for anyone building their own culture, and it may be useful to promote the idea of rituals that don’t compromise rationality, even if rationality isn’t what you’re actually talking about.