fubarobfusco comments on An Outside View on Less Wrong's Advice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 04 July 2011 02:10:02AM *  25 points [-]

Nonetheless, perhaps we need to adopt a new anti-cultishness norm against boasting about the predicted success of rationalists; or against ascribing personal victories to one's rationality without having actually done the math to demonstrate the correlation between success and rationality. The cult attractor is pretty damn bad, after all, and ending up in it could easily destroy one hell of a lot of value.

Comment author: Bongo 04 July 2011 02:25:03PM *  10 points [-]

norm against boasting about ... predicted success

This is a great idea!