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

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 January 2012 04:38:43AM *  3 points [-]

Suggestions: Insight House

I like "Insight". It alludes to "Incite", which is an exciting word that is related to the organization (definition- to give rise to, to urge into action, to stir up, etc). And it also can be broken into "in sight", which can be related to having your goals in sight, striving to reach for an attainable goal, etc.

So it's one word, with 3 positive connotations (Insight, Incite, and In Sight)

How about:

Sanity Insight
Rationality Insight
<Insert Postive Word Here> Insight
Insight Institute

Edited: Changed all "InSight" suggestions to "Insight", because I agree with markette's critique below.

Comment author: markette 28 January 2012 04:45:16AM *  8 points [-]

Forget cleverness for its own sake, optimize for the consequences.

someone reads "InSight", their brain says "oh, I get it, they combined insight and in sight. Their name is a pun." imagines suited marketing man. Where do you want to go for lunch?

Capturing that first thought and directing it somewhere useful is crucial

Comment author: [deleted] 28 January 2012 05:11:50AM *  2 points [-]

I think you're right.

Good word, bad capital "S".

I edited my suggestions to fix it.

Comment author: lessdazed 05 March 2012 03:43:59AM 0 points [-]

PASADENA, Calif. - A proposed Discovery mission concept led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to investigate the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets by studying the deep interior of Mars now has a new name, InSight.

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