ISTM that instrumental rationality overlaps a great deal with self-help/improvement. We could avoid the latter only by restricting ourselves to discussing epistemic rationality.
I don’t want the more practical or self-improvement posts to overwhelm the more academic or posts, but I don’t think the balance is too far off yet.
ISTM that instrumental rationality overlaps a great deal with self-help/improvement.
It’s a subset of it. But there are a lot of other self-help topics that don’t belong here except (as for any topic that isn’t rationality) when there’s a specific rationality angle being discussed: diet, physical fitness, personal organisation (i.e. things like GTD and 43 folders), and so on.
I hope LW has room for self-help/improvement as well as other topics.
I’d prefer that it stay focused on refining the art of human rationality.
And I’d like to know about separate quality place to discuss self-help/improvement, as the original poster suggests.
ISTM that instrumental rationality overlaps a great deal with self-help/improvement. We could avoid the latter only by restricting ourselves to discussing epistemic rationality.
I don’t want the more practical or self-improvement posts to overwhelm the more academic or posts, but I don’t think the balance is too far off yet.
It’s a subset of it. But there are a lot of other self-help topics that don’t belong here except (as for any topic that isn’t rationality) when there’s a specific rationality angle being discussed: diet, physical fitness, personal organisation (i.e. things like GTD and 43 folders), and so on.