Lumifer comments on Unofficial Canon on Applied Rationality - LessWrong

28 Post author: ScottL 15 February 2016 01:03PM

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Comment author: Riothamus 19 July 2016 07:58:06PM 0 points [-]

Sigh. I continue to forget how much of a problem that is. It is meant in the historical, rather than colloquial, meaning of the word. Since it apparently does not go without saying, the easily misunderstood term should never be used in official communication of any sort.

I apologize for the lack of clarity.

Comment author: Lumifer 19 July 2016 08:10:14PM 0 points [-]

Call it something like "gnostic practices" so that hoi polloi have no idea what it means, but it sounds respectable :-)