Doesn't this basically sum up the course of the rationalist project?
I know we're more about AI doom at this point, but if anyone is still interested in raising the sanity waterline, it seems like it's important to make it common knowledge that teaching about biases isn't enough to make people sane.
From my spot outside of the loop, it seems like that's about where the project stopped.
What's the cutting edge on raising the sanity waterline? Are people still working on this project? What might I have missed?
I don't really know who these people are either- I don't think it's important to know who they are for my post.
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Could you expand more on this? Not so much on the community side, but on the idea of rationality? What's your experience of improvement there?
I don't think I really believe that you experienced serious benefits from learning rationality.
I wish I had better information about this, I'm mostly just going off of vibes. I also wish I had better information about the state of the art of sanity-waterline raising.
I think there's also two ways to break down the sanity project, which is one- can you make a receptive audience rational or improve their lives through rationality, and two, can you raise the societal sanity waterline, like make the average person saner.
I'm interested in the model where schools are generally a big cause of the problem of societal irrationality, but that doesn't seem like something people talk about much in this community.
Well, we don't get to see the parallel timeline, so it is difficult to say precisely what is the difference. Intuitively, I compare the previous state to the current state, but that assumes that in the parallel timeline "nothing happened". Perhaps other interesting things have happened there.
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