thomblake comments on Teachable Rationality Skills - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2011 10:32:39PM 4 points [-]

Skills this may teach / has successfully taught:

Social confidence.

General self-confidence.

Body language, vocal tone, facial expressions.

Charisma.

Navigating social conversations.

Willingness to hug people at LW meetups.

Comment author: thomblake 31 May 2011 02:33:10PM 3 points [-]

Willingness to hug people at LW meetups.

Is this a rationality skill?

Comment author: mutterc 31 May 2011 08:44:11PM 1 point [-]

It's a mind hack to help one consider fellow LWers as part of one's "tribe".

It seems to me to be a rationality skill, in the sense of consciously exploiting human cognitive biases in the service of one's own goals.

Or it's a very mild form of cult "love bombing".

Comment author: thomblake 31 May 2011 08:50:26PM 0 points [-]

consciously exploiting human cognitive biases in the service of one's own goals.

An anti-rationality skill then?

Or it's a very mild form of cult "love bombing".

Indeed.