Alicorn comments on Help! Name suggestions needed for Rationality-Inst! - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 January 2012 02:24AM

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Comment author: RobertLumley 28 January 2012 03:20:23AM 5 points [-]

If the goal is to promote rationality, it seems counterproductive to have an offputting name...

Comment author: Alicorn 28 January 2012 03:24:15AM 15 points [-]

"Waterline" isn't off-putting, just opaque. So are things like "Oxfam".

Comment author: steven0461 28 January 2012 03:39:56AM 9 points [-]

Waterline makes me think of Landmark, seasteading, and Bond villains trying to drown the planet.

Comment author: erratio 28 January 2012 04:20:04AM 10 points [-]

Don't forget Sea Org!

Comment author: [deleted] 28 January 2012 08:06:40AM 6 points [-]

It isn't even the bad kind of opaque; it's the curiosity-generating kind.

Anyway, better to be interestingly opaque than boringly transparent (not that those are the only choices).

Comment author: komponisto 01 February 2012 03:40:13AM 0 points [-]

I dislike opacity, myself. Also, I find "Oxfam" transparent.

Comment author: RobertLumley 28 January 2012 03:27:00AM * 0 points [-]

I expect it to be slightly off-putting. I could be wrong.

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