CuSithBell comments on The Ultraviolet - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CuSithBell 23 May 2011 03:12:48PM 3 points [-]

Have we considered a separate forum, with forced anonymity, for discussing these topics? Like gym mats for rationality?

I'd be interested in hearing what people here have to say on this topic. As I indicated, I'm skeptical of the notion that "social reality" is so simple and noxious, not least because for many it's an extremely comforting conclusion to come to.

Comment author: thomblake 24 May 2011 04:46:26PM 1 point [-]

Like gym mats for rationality

An excellent idea. I'm going to start a list of "rationalist tools" including this and the "cognitive hazmat suit".

Comment author: wedrifid 23 May 2011 04:21:23PM 1 point [-]

Have we considered a separate forum, with forced anonymity, for discussing these topics?

Frequently. It's never been sufficiently motivating to push to implement it because, well, what would lesswrong folks know? To put it politely writing about these topics does not seem to be the lesswrong archetype's comparative advantage.

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 23 May 2011 04:44:06PM 0 points [-]

Where would such persons congregate on the internet? I can't really see people with 95th percentile social skills, never mind 99th, spending a whole pile of time discussing this kind of social strategising on a message board when they could be playing a game they enjoy and are evry good at. And most who are that good couldn't sytematise their knowledge given a month and under threat of death; keeping the seeming and the doing separate is a superior strategy to integrating this knowledge consciously for the overwhelming majority of people.