ChristianKl comments on Brainstorming for post topics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: seez 31 May 2014 11:33:02PM *  15 points [-]

Some questions I'd love to see addressed in posts:

How much can we raise the sanity waterline without transhumanism (i.e. assuming current human biology is a constant)?

Is the sanity waterline rising?

What is the best way to introduce rationality to different groups of people/subcultures?

Does LW and other rationality reading material unnecessarily signal nerdiness so strongly that it limits its effectiveness and ability to spread?

What are the best things someone with very low tech skills can do for the rationality movement, and for the world?

If LW is declining/failing, why is this happening, could this have been prevented, and are other rationality-related communities infected with the same problem?

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 June 2014 08:00:46AM 3 points [-]

What are the best things someone without very low tech skills can do for the rationality movement, and for the world?

Probably depends very much on the other skills the person has. I don't see how tech skills are central.

Comment author: seez 02 June 2014 04:58:27PM 0 points [-]

The original had a typo. It's fixed now. To clarify, I am concerned that especial attention is paid to tech skills and how they can be used. I would like to see greater focus on other diverse skills.

Comment author: ChristianKl 02 June 2014 09:39:21PM 2 points [-]

There a lot of movement building activities that don't need tech skills. At the Community Camp in Berlin Jonas Vollmer for example said that they got the permission to hold a TEDx Rationality but at the moment don't have the manpower to organize the event as they focus the energy on other projects.

A lot of movement building activities don't depend on being able to program.

Comment author: MathiasZaman 03 June 2014 05:22:03PM 1 point [-]

A lot of movement building activities don't depend on being able to program.

There's probably an article in that as well.

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 June 2014 09:35:41PM 0 points [-]

One that doesn't need technical skills to be written ;)