The conversation between Rational Rian and Bayesian Bob is uncannily reminiscent of several conversations I had when I first grew infatuated with some of EY’s writings and Lesswrong overall. This later led me to very quickly start wondering if the community would be willing to dedicated some intellectual effort and apply rationality to hiding bad signalling.
I think the OP is worth posting in the main section. But someone should write up something, about how to raise the sanity waterline without damaging your own reputation after that. Now I know when people call on someone to do something, this more or less means no one especially not me. This is why I’ve been doing my own thinking on the matter, but I’d first like to know if people on LW are interested at all in this line of thought.
For an example: A basic stratagem seems to be to successfully diagnose, perhaps even affirm, some of your acquaintances beliefs then over time present some simple and powerful, if perhaps by now obsolete or superseded arguments that first started several of LW’s more prominent writers (or yourself) on a path to the current set of beliefs. This naturally isn’t rationality building (though it might happen in the process), just spreading beliefs, but the objective here is to change the in group norms of your social circle.
Then, you can start individually building rationality skills.
The conversation between Rational Rian and Bayesian Bob is uncannily reminiscent of several conversations I had when I first grew infatuated with some of EY’s writings and Lesswrong overall. This later led me to very quickly start wondering if the community would be willing to dedicated some intellectual effort and apply rationality to hiding bad signalling.
I think the OP is worth posting in the main section. But someone should write up something, about how to raise the sanity waterline without damaging your own reputation after that. Now I know when people call on someone to do something, this more or less means no one especially not me. This is why I’ve been doing my own thinking on the matter, but I’d first like to know if people on LW are interested at all in this line of thought.
For an example: A basic stratagem seems to be to successfully diagnose, perhaps even affirm, some of your acquaintances beliefs then over time present some simple and powerful, if perhaps by now obsolete or superseded arguments that first started several of LW’s more prominent writers (or yourself) on a path to the current set of beliefs. This naturally isn’t rationality building (though it might happen in the process), just spreading beliefs, but the objective here is to change the in group norms of your social circle.
Then, you can start individually building rationality skills.
I would definitely be interested.
I’d also be interested in posts about raising your status (I’m thinking social skills) since status is really useful.
I think that’s a great idea, and if you have any ideas please share.