I like how SIAI’s name references both the event you’re working toward and method of achieving it. Is there a single word that describes a watershed event that would indicate the rationality institute’s direct success like “Singularity” does an intelligence explosion? That supporters could rally around and label themselves by (singularitarian)? A word for approximating the ideal Bayesian updater, for felling akrasia, for actually changing one’s mind? Can we create or annex one?
Exaltation, Transcendence, Apotheosis, Enlightenment, Upload, Elevation, Laudation, Upgrade, Epiphanic, and Ideate come to mind, but what I’m looking for is something more like “the act (event) of becoming your best self” in a word. Too many of these have strong religious connotations for me.
After some thought, I hereby create Max Agency! Plucky comic superhero mascot of Zenith Agency (Z.A. Huzzah!) …for Consequential Action (Z.A.C.A.) The acronym for which happens to be Max’s battlecry, but only when shouted in triplicate of course!
Now that I have a word, the idea of an agency without agents (only aspiring agents) tickles me tremendously.
Other thoughts:
Agency Institute for Rationality Training (A.I.R. Training)
Agency Foundation for Applied Rationality (A.F.A.R.)
I like how SIAI’s name references both the event you’re working toward and method of achieving it. Is there a single word that describes a watershed event that would indicate the rationality institute’s direct success like “Singularity” does an intelligence explosion? That supporters could rally around and label themselves by (singularitarian)? A word for approximating the ideal Bayesian updater, for felling akrasia, for actually changing one’s mind? Can we create or annex one?
Exaltation, Transcendence, Apotheosis, Enlightenment, Upload, Elevation, Laudation, Upgrade, Epiphanic, and Ideate come to mind, but what I’m looking for is something more like “the act (event) of becoming your best self” in a word. Too many of these have strong religious connotations for me.
After some thought, I hereby create Max Agency! Plucky comic superhero mascot of Zenith Agency (Z.A. Huzzah!) …for Consequential Action (Z.A.C.A.) The acronym for which happens to be Max’s battlecry, but only when shouted in triplicate of course!
Now that I have a word, the idea of an agency without agents (only aspiring agents) tickles me tremendously.
Other thoughts: Agency Institute for Rationality Training (A.I.R. Training)
Agency Foundation for Applied Rationality (A.F.A.R.)