Concerning Less Wrong’s tagline, consider this plausible reaction of someone looking at LW for the first time:
Cut the crap, nobody cares about rationality in the abstract. Just tell me what view you’re trying to push under the guise of presenting it as the only “rational” one.
[concerning the ban on SIAI discussion during the first weeks of LW] I think it was so that newcomers wouldn’t think that LW are a bunch of fringe technophiles that just want to have their cause associated with rationality.
And in reply:
But that’s pretty much what LW is, no? I’ve long suspected that “rationality,” as discussed here, was a bit of a ruse designed to insinuate a (misleading) necessary connection between being rational and supporting transhumanist ideals.
The quoted text speaks for itself really. So therefore I think LW’s admins/web designers should seriously consider replacing the rationality tagline with something more savory.
LW’s image problem: “Rationality” is suspicious
Concerning Less Wrong’s tagline, consider this plausible reaction of someone looking at LW for the first time:
And here are two real quotes from 2009:
And in reply:
The quoted text speaks for itself really. So therefore I think LW’s admins/web designers should seriously consider replacing the rationality tagline with something more savory.