Comment on Open Thread, April 15-30, 2013

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 22:02:28 GMT

I can't see any good general solutions. People are limited to their own judgement about whether something which purports to be selling rationality actually makes sense.

You take your chances with whether martial arts and yoga classes are useful and safe.

LW et al. does have first mover advantage and hopefully some prestige as a result, and I'm hoping that that resources for the general public will be developed here. On the other hand, taking sufficient care to develop workshops which actually work takes time-- and that's workshops for people whose intelligence level is similar to that of the people putting on the workshops.

If we assume that rationalists should win, even over fake rationalists, then maybe we should leave the possibility open that rationalists who are actually in the situation of competing with fake rationalists should be in a better position to find solutions because they'll know more than we do now.

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