Side point: I’ve found material like his, “concepts we talk about here, but under different names”, extremely useful when I want to explain the idea of rationality to someone without having to work around the lesswrong lingo and trying to have a conversion while tabooing all the lesswrong phases and cached thoughts.
Yes! In my opinion, it’s a great habit to be on the lookout for things under a different name. This is the “academic coordination problem:” things are often rediscovered again and again, because people have incentives to write but not to read.
Side point: I’ve found material like his, “concepts we talk about here, but under different names”, extremely useful when I want to explain the idea of rationality to someone without having to work around the lesswrong lingo and trying to have a conversion while tabooing all the lesswrong phases and cached thoughts.
Yes! In my opinion, it’s a great habit to be on the lookout for things under a different name. This is the “academic coordination problem:” things are often rediscovered again and again, because people have incentives to write but not to read.