Grognor 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: Grognor 28 January 2012 05:52:08AM *  1 point [-]

My best tries:

Simple but boring

  • Mostly Rational
  • Decision Training
  • Minding Mind
  • Methods that Actually Work (MAW)

Too fancy

  • Technical Thinking Institute
  • Practical Problem Solving
  • Mental Floss / Mental Sharpener
  • Whatever Is Necessary (WIN)
  • Epistemic Voracity Dance
  • The Unfettered, Unwavering Path to Glorious Triumph!
Comment author: Multiheaded 28 January 2012 03:58:44PM -1 points [-]

Whatever Is Necessary (WIN)

Could trigger the knee-jerk reaction to "The ends always justify the means, stupid rabbit, durr!" and all such Rand-like screed that's even now floating around in contrarian circles.

Comment author: hankx7787 28 January 2012 06:31:06PM 1 point [-]

How you came up with "The ends always justify the means" as being "Rand-like" is beyond me.

Comment author: Multiheaded 28 January 2012 06:54:54PM 0 points [-]

It's a stereotype of her thinking in America, no?

Comment author: TimS 28 January 2012 06:58:39PM 2 points [-]

Selfishness (which is the American stereotype) != ends justify means.

Comment author: Multiheaded 28 January 2012 07:19:00PM 0 points [-]

Oh. Got it.