wwa comments on Self-Congratulatory Rationalism - Less Wrong

51 Post author: ChrisHallquist 01 March 2014 08:52AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2014 08:15:49PM 13 points [-]

Edited the most recent welcome post and the post of mine that it linked to.

Does anyone have a 1-syllable synonym for 'aspiring'? It seems like we need to impose better discipline on this for official posts.

Comment author: wwa 02 March 2014 02:48:30AM *  2 points [-]

demirationalist - on one hand, something already above average, like in demigod. On the other, leaves the "not quite there" feeling. My second best was epirationalist

Didn't find anything better in my opinion, but in case you want to give it a (somewhat cheap) shot yourself... I just looped over this