CronoDAS comments on LessWrong could grow a lot, but we're doing it wrong. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 20 August 2012 10:57:16PM 0 points [-]

I don't know if we want more visitors as much as we want more converts. We really do have a lot in common with a phyg, in that we have a particular worldview that isn't mainstream and that we're trying to spread.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 21 August 2012 07:45:58AM 3 points [-]

Well, if they succeed in "converting" us to their way of thinking, because it's correct and they can persuasively argue for it, that's even better. Right?

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 August 2012 02:24:10AM 0 points [-]

Hopefully!

Comment author: Epiphany 21 August 2012 12:19:01AM 0 points [-]

What is a convert? An irrational person who wants to become rational, or a more or less rational person who wants to become better?

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 August 2012 02:23:04AM *  2 points [-]

Either.

More specifically, our worldview includes:

Atheism
Physicalism
Transhumanism, including radical life extension (or at least the belief that it would be a good idea)
Empiricism
Ethical naturalism
and some other things, including rejection of most of the kind of nonsense the Skeptic movement complains about