Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Examples of Rationality Techniques adopted by the Masses - Less Wrong Discussion
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Paper. Calendars. Smartphones. Asking other people for advice.
Isn't that just technological progress? Except for asking people for advice, nothing else there changes how people think, so it's hard to call it a rationality technique IMO.
I totally disagree! Paper is an amazing tool for changing how people think: it gives them an external source of working memory!