Suggestion for solution: interested parties taboo “rationality” and privately write a (roughly) three sentence summary of just what it is we think we’re about. At a later time, interested parties post their summaries, and then try to pick out common themes and keywords to identify a unique label that doesn’t have the name collision problem identified in the OP.
And then, about three minutes later, we’d have to taboo said common keywords and then write a three sentence summary of said keyword and present it to each other in order to pick out common themes and keywords, and repeat this process over and over...and not being able to actually talk about what we were supposed to talk about.
Can’t we just argue over what is being done in the name of rationality, rather than arguing over the word “rationality” itself?
Well, you won’t have to worry about it unless the grandparent hits 5 karma points, that being the threshold I had privately decided on for doing a discussion post following up on the idea. But if it does come to that, care to state your personal odds for the occurrence of your predicted regress?
Throwing up numbers would just be pointless guessing for the sake of pointless guessing, but because of the tight-knit nature of the blog in question (meaning that people here tend to share the same ideas and values concerning rationality), I’d say that the chances of regression for the LessWrong community would be significantly lower than the chances of regression for two random individuals.
Throwing up numbers would just be pointless guessing for the sake of pointless guessing
If you do it systematically, picking odds and tracking them can help with your calilbration. Doing it in public helps because it puts a little bit of status on the line, which makes one care about getting it right.
Suggestion for solution: interested parties taboo “rationality” and privately write a (roughly) three sentence summary of just what it is we think we’re about. At a later time, interested parties post their summaries, and then try to pick out common themes and keywords to identify a unique label that doesn’t have the name collision problem identified in the OP.
And then, about three minutes later, we’d have to taboo said common keywords and then write a three sentence summary of said keyword and present it to each other in order to pick out common themes and keywords, and repeat this process over and over...and not being able to actually talk about what we were supposed to talk about.
Can’t we just argue over what is being done in the name of rationality, rather than arguing over the word “rationality” itself?
Well, you won’t have to worry about it unless the grandparent hits 5 karma points, that being the threshold I had privately decided on for doing a discussion post following up on the idea. But if it does come to that, care to state your personal odds for the occurrence of your predicted regress?
Throwing up numbers would just be pointless guessing for the sake of pointless guessing, but because of the tight-knit nature of the blog in question (meaning that people here tend to share the same ideas and values concerning rationality), I’d say that the chances of regression for the LessWrong community would be significantly lower than the chances of regression for two random individuals.
If you do it systematically, picking odds and tracking them can help with your calilbration. Doing it in public helps because it puts a little bit of status on the line, which makes one care about getting it right.