JenniferRM comments on Intuition and Unconscious Learning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JenniferRM 09 May 2011 03:52:55AM 2 points [-]

I've had similar thoughts for quite a while and I realized that "more right" had all kinds of emotional connotations that I wasn't sure were a good idea. I was thinking that something like More Helpful would offer a better framing. Instead of cultivating rationality, it would be cultivating something like "pro-social efficacy".

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 09 May 2011 08:23:50PM *  2 points [-]

I like it. I would be in favor of changing the name of the community to Less Wrong and More Helpful.

There have been other online communities with very high standards of rationality, but none that combine it with as much actual desire to help people.