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

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Comment author: beoShaffer 28 January 2012 03:38:29AM *  20 points [-]

Less Wrong

The Modern Rationality Institute.

The institute for Bayesian Reasoning

Center for applied rationality.

The Applied Rationality Institute

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 28 January 2012 11:12:51AM 8 points [-]

Upvoted for "Center for Applied Rationality".

Comment author: hankx7787 28 January 2012 04:07:02PM 20 points [-]

"The Eliezer Yudkowsky Center for Kids Who Can't Think Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too"

Comment author: cousin_it 28 January 2012 05:59:27PM *  5 points [-]

"The Eliezer Yudkowsky center for promoting rationality" actually sounds like a nice and honest name to me.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 January 2012 08:39:41PM *  -1 points [-]

I hereby rescind my earlier comment.

If only it made a better acronym!

Comment author: bungula 29 January 2012 08:25:37PM 5 points [-]

Upvoted for "Less Wrong".

It's a perfectly good name for a website, and it's a perfectly good name for an institute.

Comment author: Jotto999 12 February 2012 11:19:38PM *  0 points [-]

I like how Center for Applied Rationality sounds, though it might be too long. Or maybe that isn't a problem and suddenly the amount of times I type the word CAR would increase.

How about Colligate Institute? Though maybe Colligate is too obscure a word (Google Chrome's spell-checker has it underlined in red).

Comment author: fubarobfusco 13 February 2012 04:15:02PM 2 points [-]

Looks too much like a typo for "collegiate", which is a much more common word.

Comment author: beoShaffer 13 February 2012 12:53:12AM 0 points [-]

Though maybe Colligate is too obscure a word (Google Chrome's spell-checker has it underlined in red).

I'd say its pretty obscure.