My examples indicate it’s not necessary to hand victory to others. Science didn’t spread due to evangelism, science spread because it works. Art spreads because people love it. This is the standard we should be holding ourselves to.
Evangelism is the equivalent of proactive sales with an inferior product. A good evangelist/salesman can push through negative-sum deals, actually destroying total value in the world. If you’ve spent time in the IT industry, you recognize this picture.
Eliezer said repeatedly that rationalists should WIN. Great, now won’t anyone take this phrase seriously? I don’t want a rationalist technique to make myself pure from racism or somesuch crap. I want a rationalist technique to WIN. Fo’ real. Develop it, and the world will beat a path to your door.
Right now you (we) have no product, and preaching is no substitute.
I have to say that I’m really enjoying lesswrong.com so far; so much of this is the sort of conversation I want to be having. I’m not convinced, I’m thinking about it, but you should make a top-level post about this, it would benefit from having more people in the discussion.
My examples indicate it’s not necessary to hand victory to others. Science didn’t spread due to evangelism, science spread because it works. Art spreads because people love it. This is the standard we should be holding ourselves to.
Evangelism is the equivalent of proactive sales with an inferior product. A good evangelist/salesman can push through negative-sum deals, actually destroying total value in the world. If you’ve spent time in the IT industry, you recognize this picture.
Eliezer said repeatedly that rationalists should WIN. Great, now won’t anyone take this phrase seriously? I don’t want a rationalist technique to make myself pure from racism or somesuch crap. I want a rationalist technique to WIN. Fo’ real. Develop it, and the world will beat a path to your door.
Right now you (we) have no product, and preaching is no substitute.
I have to say that I’m really enjoying lesswrong.com so far; so much of this is the sort of conversation I want to be having. I’m not convinced, I’m thinking about it, but you should make a top-level post about this, it would benefit from having more people in the discussion.
Thanks for the encouragement! I wrote it up, should show under Recent Posts.