Lumifer comments on Four things every community should do - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 20 October 2014 05:24PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 October 2014 04:36:47PM 0 points [-]

Be careful about keeping descriptive and normative separate.

The correlation that we are talking about is descriptive and has to do with observable reality. What you think should be done and how is normative and has to do with your value judgments.

Comment author: ruelian 23 October 2014 04:46:47PM 0 points [-]

You're right, my apologies.

My value judgment about disincentives still stands, though. Religious communities have a framework for applying social and other disincentives (and incentives) in order to achieve their desired result. That framework could be useful if adapted to the purpose of promoting rationality.