Swimmer963 comments on Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 May 2011 09:45:06AM *  7 points [-]

But rationalism doesn’t have a well-defined set of norms/desirable skills to develop. As a result, we Less Wrongians unsurprisingly also lack a well-developed practical system for implementation.

Implementation of what? What's the purpose of these hypothetical norms? There's no point in propagating arbitrary norms. You are describing it backwards.

Comment author: Swimmer963 10 May 2011 01:37:42PM 2 points [-]

But rationalism doesn’t have a well-defined set of norms/desirable skills to develop

I'm not sure that "norms" are the same as "desirable skills to develop". The LessWrong community definitely has a list of desirable skills: improve understanding of Bayes, for example.Maybe not well-defined though.