orthonormal comments on What's in a name? That which we call a rationalist… - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 25 April 2009 02:40:23AM -1 points [-]

Or, what about "Bayesians"? The only drawback I see is conflation with the Bayesian Conspiracy of Eliezer's fiction.

Comment author: Alicorn 25 April 2009 04:02:42AM 0 points [-]

We could go ahead and identify ourselves with the fiction and call ourselves Conspirators, but perhaps that sounds too negative.

Comment author: MBlume 25 April 2009 04:36:33AM 2 points [-]

beisutsukai?

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 25 April 2009 12:11:50PM *  1 point [-]

beisutsukai?

...will only serve to make us sound like weeaboos, even if Eliezer seems to be referring to the Book of Five Rings as much as $ArbitraryAnimeSeries.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 April 2009 04:31:10PM 1 point [-]

Well yes I was assuming their Conspiracy was founded by Musashi readers rather than anime fans, though the alternative case certainly makes for an interesting suggestion...

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 25 April 2009 11:54:53AM 0 points [-]

There's also conflation with Bayesian superintelligences and the proponents of Bayesian interpretation of propability. Look at the disambiguation list on Wikipedia!