Cayenne comments on Building rationalist communities: lessons from the Latter-day Saints - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cayenne 10 May 2011 09:03:09AM *  4 points [-]

I'm not sure that we should adopt any kind of dress code at all, other than not offending the fashion sense of others inadvertently. Perhaps something small, like a sigil that people could wear as jewelry would be sufficient?

Branding ourselves should only be done after we become an effective group, and one that is admired. We want to be known as 'those sensible people that get things done', not 'that group of nerds that talks way too much about how my thinking sucks'. Eventually we'd like everyone to aspire to rationality, not just the people that test over some arbitrary IQ score.

Edit - please disregard this post