lessdazed comments on POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum - Less Wrong

54 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2012 06:50AM

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Comment author: lessdazed 20 January 2012 08:24:10PM 7 points [-]

My friend says it makes her think it has to do with boating. There should be a separate focused attempt to come up with the best name.

Comment author: Wrongnesslessness 20 January 2012 09:50:05PM 6 points [-]

I agree. The waterline metaphor is not so commonly known outside LW that it would evoke anything except some watery connotations.

So, what about a nice-looking acronym like "Truth, Rationality, Universe, Eliezer"? :)

Comment author: bbarth 21 January 2012 04:35:44AM 2 points [-]

Seriously? This place already has a rep for being a personality cult. Let's not purposefully reinforce it. ;)

Comment author: PhilSchwartz 23 January 2012 09:41:44PM 2 points [-]

If there is concern that people outside of LW won't know the metaphor, then the name "Rationality Waterline" can be used at first with the goal of gaining enough recognition to move on to simply "Waterline" at a later date.