Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Why Don't Rationalists Win? - LessWrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 07 September 2015 01:48:13PM 4 points [-]

LW vocabulary relabels a lot of traditional rationality terms.

Has anyone put together a translation dictionary? Because it seems to me that most of the terms are the same, and yet it is common to claim that relabeling is common without any sort of quantitative comparison.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 11 September 2015 08:22:45AM 13 points [-]

Huh, lemme do it.

Schelling fence → bright-line rule

Semantic stopsign → thought-terminating cliché

Anti-inductiveness → reverse Tinkerbell effect

"0 and 1 are not probabilities" → Cromwell's rule

Tapping out → agreeing to disagree (which sometimes confuses LWers when they take the latter literally (see last paragraph of linked comment))

ETA (edited to add) → PS (post scriptum)

That's off the top of my head, but I think I've seen more.

Comment author: ScottL 11 September 2015 12:39:36PM *  5 points [-]

Thanks for this. Let me know if you have any others and I will add them to this wiki page I created: Less Wrong Canon on Rationality. Here are some more that I already had.

  • Fallacy of gray → Continuum fallacy
  • Motivated skepticism → disconfirmation bias
  • Marginally zero-sum game → arms race
Comment author: Jiro 11 September 2015 03:48:14PM 7 points [-]
Comment author: [deleted] 19 September 2015 05:03:45PM *  3 points [-]

Funging Against -> Considering the alternative

Akrasia -> Procrastination/Resistance

Belief in Belief -> Self-Deception

Ugh Field ->Aversion to (I had a better fit for this but I can't think of it now)

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 13 September 2015 02:49:23PM 1 point [-]

Instrumental/terminal = hypothetical/categorical

rationalist taboo = unpacking.

Comment author: helldalgo 02 December 2015 07:46:12AM 0 points [-]

Instrumental and terminal are pretty common terms. I've seen them in philosophy and business classes.

Comment author: Vaniver 11 September 2015 02:16:10PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the list!

I am amused by this section of Anti-Inductiveness in this context, though:

Not that this is standard terminology - but perhaps "efficient market" doesn't convey quite the same warning as "anti-inductive". We would appear to need stronger warnings.

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