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

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Comment author: thomblake 10 February 2012 12:49:35AM *  1 point [-]

Not sure if this discussion is still ongoing, but...

It seems to me that something that means "rationality" should be in there, and probably a word that means "institute".

Some words are to be avoided, like 'belief', which carry weird connotations. Weird-sounding is probably bad ("Mensa" sounds too weird to lots of people). English words are probably best. Being tied to a person's name is hardly ever a good idea.

The Institute for Intelligence Utilization
Make Humanity Smarter
Sanity Academy
League of Extraordinary Thinkers
The Brain Society
Lightbringers
Order of Daedalus
Knights Prometheus (EDIT: should probably be "Knights Promethean")
The Bayesian Priory

Comment author: thomblake 10 February 2012 12:50:04AM 0 points [-]

Sadly, "Icarus Foundation" is taken.