Bo2 comments on Whither OB? - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 November 2008 07:38PM

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Comment author: Bo2 17 November 2008 10:22:24PM 0 points [-]

I think that the community should emphasize that it is a community of wannabe-rationalists whose goal is to self-improve, overcome bias and learn the secrets of the Bayes or whatever. Just as this blog does. I think that that would weed out the likes of the Rational Response Squad, which is an example of what we don't want a rationalist community to be like!

At the same time I don't think that a rationalist community should be any more elitist than necessary. It should fulfill part of the same purpose as your planned popular book.