You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Lumifer comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (9th thread, May 2016) - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Viliam 17 May 2016 08:26AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (49)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 20 May 2016 02:32:26PM 1 point [-]

puts me near the bottom of this community?

No, I don't think so. Self-reported IQs from a self-selected group have a bias. I'll let you guess in which direction :-)

I am curious to what extent rationalists engage in outreach (other than CFAR I guess) towards more average individuals

There's Gleb Tsipursky and his Intentional Insights, but from my point of view this whole endeavour looks quite unfortunate. YMMV, of course.

Comment author: Babson 21 May 2016 09:03:04PM 1 point [-]

"No, I don't think so. Self-reported IQs from a self-selected group have a bias. I'll let you guess in which direction :-)"

Of course, but I guess that I would expect a site helping its members to "Overcome Bias" would provide more trustworthy data! :)

Comment author: Lumifer 22 May 2016 11:53:00PM 0 points [-]

"More trustworthy" != trustworthy.

Comment author: Babson 23 May 2016 12:39:47AM 0 points [-]

Haha, yes indeed.