The intentions of the various categories seem to have changed considerably in this version, which suggests that maybe we need to talk about what we want this list of norms to do before we figure out what subcategories it needs.
To that end, I see three obvious goals. In rough order of importance:
Codify skills, habits, and meta-beliefs that will help people be rational, e.g. rationalist taboo.
Codify norms of this group, to make it easy for people to join up—rather like Silas’ ‘signs about how things are done here’ idea.
List useful, basically-settled beliefs for people to build on, e.g. Ocham’s Razor or Bayseanism.
The term “social rational” sounds like it would be used for core-type skills used for working in groups. “LW-specific norms” might work better for that one. Otherwise, yeah, sounds good to me.
Edited to try to make this clearer. I may still need to alter the phrasing more to make it less offensive, and I welcome all suggestions.
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The intentions of the various categories seem to have changed considerably in this version, which suggests that maybe we need to talk about what we want this list of norms to do before we figure out what subcategories it needs.
To that end, I see three obvious goals. In rough order of importance:
Codify skills, habits, and meta-beliefs that will help people be rational, e.g. rationalist taboo.
Codify norms of this group, to make it easy for people to join up—rather like Silas’ ‘signs about how things are done here’ idea.
List useful, basically-settled beliefs for people to build on, e.g. Ocham’s Razor or Bayseanism.
Would it be better to categorize them by goal, then?
That would suggest three levels of norms: core rational, social rational, and common knowledge.
The term “social rational” sounds like it would be used for core-type skills used for working in groups. “LW-specific norms” might work better for that one. Otherwise, yeah, sounds good to me.