ChristianKl comments on Unofficial Canon on Applied Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 21 July 2016 08:50:37AM 0 points [-]

The examples you give are strategies employed by organizations trying to deny all knowledge outside of the initiated.

I think most of the organsiation I'm talking about don't have a binary intiate/non-initiate criteria whereby the initiated get access to all knowledge. As people learn more they get access to more knowledge. Most scientologists haven't heard of Xenu. At least that was the case 10 years ago.

If the knowledge is being transmitted outside of the workshops, how do we persuade the suppliants to self-initiate?

LW-Dojo are a way for knowledge to be transmitted outside of workshops. I also think that alumni are generally encouraged to explain knowledge to other people. Peer-to-peer instruction has natural filter that reduce completely passive consumption.

That doesn't mean that inherently impossible to transmit knowledge via writting but it's hard.

Comment author: Riothamus 21 July 2016 01:10:02PM 0 points [-]

That doesn't mean that inherently impossible to transmit knowledge via writting but it's hard.

Agreed. The more I consider the problem, the higher my confidence that investing enough energy in the process is a bad investment for them.

Another romantic solution waiting for the appropriate problem. I should look into detaching from the idea.