John_Maxwell_IV comments on We Should Introduce Ourselves Differently - Less Wrong

54 Post author: NancyLebovitz 18 May 2015 08:48PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 21 May 2015 01:19:01PM 4 points [-]

Agree. NancyLebovitz's posts points at something true: there should be more resources like HPMOR for "regular people" to increase their level of rationality. That's part of the reason I'm excited about groups like Intentional Insights that are working on this. But I think "dumbing down" Less Wrong is a mistake. You want to segment your audience. Less Wrong is for the segment that gets curious when they see unfamiliar technical terms.