Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality is Systematized Winning - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2009 02:41PM

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Comment author: AlexU 03 April 2009 04:21:28PM *  3 points [-]

Yes. Rationalism shouldn't be see as a bag of discrete tricks, but rather, as the means for achieving any given end -- what it takes to do something you want to do. The particulars will vary, of course, depending on the end in question, but the rational individual should do better at figuring them out.

On a side note, I'm not sure coming up with better slogans, catchphrases, and neologisms is the right thing to be aiming for.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2009 04:34:52PM 4 points [-]

Do not underestimate the power of poetry.

Comment author: Annoyance 03 April 2009 05:04:31PM -1 points [-]

Yes, but power to do what? Sometimes poetry conveys ideas and associations, sometimes it just annoys people.