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Gleb_Tsipursky comments on Marketing Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

28 Post author: Viliam 18 November 2015 01:43PM

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Comment author: bogus 18 November 2015 03:32:20PM *  3 points [-]

Trying to teach someone to think rationally is a long process -- maybe even impossible for some people.

This is not incompatible with marketing persay - marketing is about advocacy, not teaching. And pretty much all effective advocacy has to be targeted to System 1 - the "heart" or the "gut" - in fairly direct terms.

To me, it seems that CFAR was supposed to be working on this sort of stuff, and they have not accomplished all that much. So I think, in a way, we should be welcoming the fact that Gleb T./International Insights are now trying to fill this void. Maybe they aren't doing it very well at this time, but that's a separate matter.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 19 November 2015 02:15:20AM 4 points [-]

Thanks for the support! We are trying to fill a pretty big void.

However, just to clarify, marketing is only one aspect of what we are doing. We have a much broader agenda, which I describe in my comment here. And I'm always looking for ideas on how to do things better!