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Indeed - the reason we don't say that explicitly is that it's unclear how much this is the case. However, if it were possible for Lw to become a "rationality dojo", I think most of us would leap on the opportunity.
There is some previous discussion which suggests that not everyone here would be happy to see LW as a "rationality dojo".
The term "dojo" has favorable connotations for me, partly because one of my secret identity's modest claims to fame is as a co-originator of the "Coding Dojo", an attempt to bring a measure of sanity back to the IT industry's horrible pedagogy and hiring practices.
However these connotations might be biasing my thinking about whether using the "dojo" metaphor as a guide to direct the evolution of LW would be for good or ill on balance.
How about starting a discussion at the top of the current Open Thread to ask people what they now think of applying the Dojo metaphor to LW?
I think I'm the only one on that thread who explicitly advised against starting a rationality dojo, and the other concerns were mostly whether it was possible.
Indeed. Eliezer's post itself, however, seemed mostly to caution against it, and perhaps what he took away from the subsequent discussion, after weighing the various contributions, was that it had too little to recommend it. At any rate, that I'm aware, the question wasn't raised again?
Of course one issue is that it was never clarified what "it" might be, i.e. what would result from treating LW more explicitly as a "rationality dojo" (that would be different from what it is at present).