rabidchicken comments on Rationality Boot Camp - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rabidchicken 22 March 2011 11:19:15PM 3 points [-]

Intensive training often involves doing things you would not normally make yourself do, but if I go and they ask me to do anything truly insane or unethical, I would opt out whether it was tolerated or not. That said, I trust most people here enough that I am extremely doubtful this will be necessary.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 March 2011 03:15:13PM 1 point [-]

There's another category besides insane and unethical, both of which I take to mean activities which would be bad for anybody.

What about individual overload? The challenge of developing a program like a boot camp is having some idea of what challenges will be useful rather than damaging, in a context where people are assumed to be too cautious with themselves.

Is there such a thing as too much for the participants? If so, what methods will the people running the boot camp use to recognize it?