somervta comments on Open thread for December 17-23, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CAE_Jones 18 December 2013 10:48:50PM *  6 points [-]

"Rationality" as used around here indicates "succeeding more often". Or if you prefer, "Rationality is winning".

That's the idea. From the looks of it, most of us either suck at it, or only needed it for minor things in the first place, or are improving slowly enough that it's indistinguishable from "I used more flashcards this month". (Or maybe I just suck at it and fail to notice actually impressive improvements people have made; that's possible, too.)

[Edit: CFAR seems to have a better reputation for teaching instrumental rationality than LessWrong, which seems to make sense. Too bad it's a geographically bound organization with a price tag.]

Comment author: somervta 19 December 2013 07:04:48AM 2 points [-]

it's a geographically bound organization

This is getting better, slowly. Workshops are going on in Melbourne sometime in early 2014 (February?), and they're looking to do more internationals going forward.