I’ve been reading some posts about whether we should try to bring people into ideas like those from LessWrong, and how to do it. I personality think yes. To me, it’s so wonderful to embrace doubt, to embrace failure and see it as “ops” in my life, that I just want more people like that around me. How do you attract people to something as risky and costly as rationality?

But to make that happen, it seems like we’d need to use more “share points,” step out of our caves of rationality, and try connecting through common ground being present in popular networks. Would you take that risk?

Here, In another post I gave the idea of a pastor searching for faith, for trust, the way so many people do, so rationality could be encouraged with a touch of humor (here is the video). I’m already trying it. It’s going better than I expected. But I also think about a more direct proposal.

So here’s a another idea that I was work, I’d try to attract “dummies” to rationality. Let me share my idea:

Script: Mapping the Labyrinth of Thoughts
(Start with the most famous meme, then cut to a darker scene with me speaking.)

I’m sorry. I’m not here to give you memes. I’m not here to give you easy answers.
I’m sharing these ideas because they help me accept uncertainty, the labyrinth of my own thoughts.

(Scene: a brain shifting into a complex labyrinth, mapped with Estimat’s ideas)

If you also want to map the labyrinth, shit!, I’d love to share my doubts with you.

(Cut back to an image of the labyrinth, full of many winding paths)
Have you ever felt lost in the labyrinth of your thoughts?

(Image of the most common desires)
In the middle of thousands of choices, expectations, and cravings?

(Image of a coaching-style figure saying something like:)
“You’ve already been given simple solutions, like: just follow in Bill Gates’ footsteps, he got rich.”
But you don’t know how to invent Windows… again.

(Image of many people inside unique labyrinths)
You don’t accept simple answers because you see that each of us starts from a different labyrinth.

(Images of the mythology of Theseus)
Theseus was the hero who conquered the labyrinth.
He managed to find his way back thanks to Ariadne, daughter of Minos, who gave him the famous Thread of Ariadne.
With the thread, Theseus could mark the way forward and then back, a feat no one had achieved before.

(Back to me, with a clearer scene)
If you want to help map the labyrinth of your thoughts, I see three prerequisites:

1. You: don’t accept easy answers, because you see the labyrinth can be very complex.
2. You: are willing to risk yourself in the labyrinth, say at least 5 minutes a day.
3. You: already have your Ariadne’s thread: that subtle perception that thoughts aren’t simple, that you can get lost, and when you do, you’ll need a guide to come back.

I can’t give you that thread.

So, shall we map this labyrinth together?