paulfchristiano comments on Effective Rationality Outreach - Less Wrong

18 Post author: paulfchristiano 19 March 2011 12:16AM

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Comment author: paulfchristiano 22 March 2011 12:45:15AM 2 points [-]

At the time I said "LW readers would be uniformly better served by applying their rationality than developing it further."

The sentiment is still somewhat applicable; the difference between then and now is that then I believed that my own rationality had reached the point where improvements were useless. LessWrong did nothing to convince me otherwise, where this should have been its first priority if it was trying to change my behavior.

(My first real posts to LessWrong were amusing games vaguely related to a naive conception of safe AGI)

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 22 March 2011 04:53:04AM 0 points [-]

LW readers would be uniformly better served by applying their rationality than developing it further.

When you wrote that, did you mean applying it to the problems of society, to personal problems like wealth creation, or to both?

Comment author: paulfchristiano 22 March 2011 05:18:05AM 1 point [-]

Both.