Gleb, first of all I think that Intentional Insights is a great idea and I support the cause! Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be supporting the cause by wearing t-shirts with slogans. In particular, InIn (as I understand it) is aimed at the broader audience, while all those t-shirts are basically in-jokes for people already in the LW space and baffling to anyone else.
I second ChristianKI’s idea of incorporating graphic designs, maybe an “I changed my mind today!” shirt in the style of this famous one.
I would also suggest making the slogans intriguing and humorous instead of straightforward, so they can start conversations and be less embarrassing to wear. Off the top of my head:
I was stupid yesterday instead of “Less wrong every day”
Super agenty instead of “Living on purpose”
Evidence or it doesn’t happen instead of “Absence Of Evidence Is Evidence Of Absence”
None of the above are really good, but that’s the direction I think the t-shirts should be going in.
Thanks for the support for InIn, and I hear your concerns about the in-jokes. This is one reason why we test-ran these slogans by a broad audience, and they proved intriguing to people, specifically the kind of people we want to attract to the rationality movement—reason-oriented young people, specifically reason-oriented college students who were members of the Secular Student Alliance. We chose to avoid some slogans that were not intriguing, such as “the map is not the territory.”
Thanks for the ideas about the slogans! I like the idea of “I was stupider yesterday” and “Evidence or it doesn’t happen,” those might work well. “Super agenty” seems too much of an in-joke to me. Anyone else has suggestions for improving these?
Gleb, first of all I think that Intentional Insights is a great idea and I support the cause! Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be supporting the cause by wearing t-shirts with slogans. In particular, InIn (as I understand it) is aimed at the broader audience, while all those t-shirts are basically in-jokes for people already in the LW space and baffling to anyone else.
I second ChristianKI’s idea of incorporating graphic designs, maybe an “I changed my mind today!” shirt in the style of this famous one.
I would also suggest making the slogans intriguing and humorous instead of straightforward, so they can start conversations and be less embarrassing to wear. Off the top of my head:
I was stupid yesterday instead of “Less wrong every day”
Super agenty instead of “Living on purpose”
Evidence or it doesn’t happen instead of “Absence Of Evidence Is Evidence Of Absence”
None of the above are really good, but that’s the direction I think the t-shirts should be going in.
Thanks for the support for InIn, and I hear your concerns about the in-jokes. This is one reason why we test-ran these slogans by a broad audience, and they proved intriguing to people, specifically the kind of people we want to attract to the rationality movement—reason-oriented young people, specifically reason-oriented college students who were members of the Secular Student Alliance. We chose to avoid some slogans that were not intriguing, such as “the map is not the territory.”
Thanks for the ideas about the slogans! I like the idea of “I was stupider yesterday” and “Evidence or it doesn’t happen,” those might work well. “Super agenty” seems too much of an in-joke to me. Anyone else has suggestions for improving these?
the designs from the famous one are bad..
Please help optimize the designs of the t-shirts—more in this post. Thanks!
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Please help optimize the designs of the t-shirts—more in this post. Thanks!
Please don’t spam the same comment to different threads.