I was thinking about a Defense Against Predators Doc, addressing various bad things that already happened in the rationalist community. I wonder whether it should or should not be the same document as the Best Practices Doc. On one hand, those are two quite different topics. On the other hand, there is also some overlap in the form of organizational zealotry (e.g. Leverage, Nonlinear).
Any other Docs that should be written for rationalists? By a Doc I think something that is dramatically shorter than the Sequences, because frankly most people are not going to read the Sequences. As you mentioned in the article, there already are various warnings in the Sequences, but people ignore them. The memes have a life of their own, and in the contrarian environment, the dangerous edgy ideas spread fast, and the warning mostly do not.
I was thinking about a Defense Against Predators Doc, addressing various bad things that already happened in the rationalist community. I wonder whether it should or should not be the same document as the Best Practices Doc. On one hand, those are two quite different topics. On the other hand, there is also some overlap in the form of organizational zealotry (e.g. Leverage, Nonlinear).
Any other Docs that should be written for rationalists? By a Doc I think something that is dramatically shorter than the Sequences, because frankly most people are not going to read the Sequences. As you mentioned in the article, there already are various warnings in the Sequences, but people ignore them. The memes have a life of their own, and in the contrarian environment, the dangerous edgy ideas spread fast, and the warning mostly do not.