Oh, I mean that part of the point of the post is to talk about what relative advantages/disadvantages rationality should have, in principle, if we’re doing it right—as opposed to whatever specific skills or strategies today’s rationalist community happens to have stumbled on. It’s about the relative advantages of the rationality practices which we hopefully converge to in the long run, not necessarily the rationality practices we have today.
Listing pros and cons of current rationalist techniques could then be compared to your ideal version of rationality to see what’s lacking (or points out holes in the “ideal version”). Also, “current rationality techniques” is ill-defined in my head and the closest I can imagine is the CFAR manual, though that is not the list I would’ve made.
Oh, I mean that part of the point of the post is to talk about what relative advantages/disadvantages rationality should have, in principle, if we’re doing it right—as opposed to whatever specific skills or strategies today’s rationalist community happens to have stumbled on. It’s about the relative advantages of the rationality practices which we hopefully converge to in the long run, not necessarily the rationality practices we have today.
Oh! That makes sense as a post on it’s own.
Listing pros and cons of current rationalist techniques could then be compared to your ideal version of rationality to see what’s lacking (or points out holes in the “ideal version”). Also, “current rationality techniques” is ill-defined in my head and the closest I can imagine is the CFAR manual, though that is not the list I would’ve made.
Yup, exactly.