What is being done?
Hello, my name is Marcus, I live in Germany. I figured out a lot of the knowledge shared here by myself over the years and now reached a point where I just had to start working on my own website before I bust from all those ideas wanting to go out. I tried to find out if such content already existed but first failed. I finally discovered this and a few similar websites yesterday, after Spencer Greenberg of www.clearerthinking.org answered my desperate email and pointed me to "the rationalist movement". Bang! Finally I wasn't alone anymore, and there is even an LW meetup in my home city Frankfurt! Now I am hoping to find more answers here. Apparently, there are no websites / organisations similar to LW, EA or CFAR (Jeeez! I can't believe I'm already using these shorts that were 100% mysterious to me yesterday) in Germany. Does that really mean I am the spearhead of world saving here once I go live??? Anyway, I wonder what is being done to give impact to "the cause"? The rational (sic!) things to be done seem to be: * Building a website and make "How To" videos that will spread the (boiled down and simplified) word to the widest possible audience * Start online petitions to implement rationalism into regular school education * Ask Bill Gates for a few billions in donations * Found a political party (OK, probably no use in the U.S., but certainly doable in Germany) I am just thinking out loud here. Or has this already been done and failed? What is actually MOVING in the rationalist movement? Who has an overview of whats going on? Happy to be here and anxious about feedback! :-) Take care, Marcus.
Fair enough.
Could you maybe point me to other helpful sites?
What I am look for in particular is a forum / community dealing with not only rationality but also emotional intelligence / empathy / self reflection / brain debugging / reason vs. emotion in a less theoretical/academic/abstract and more practical way than LW.
What I am looking for is an online step by step guide to rationality that starts from zero and is somewhat easier to access than LW / EY stuff.
I know https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com, but it it's focus is too narrow, and there is no community.
I finally found this:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Z9rLfMjTZ2X376izm/rationality-as-an-ea-cause-area
" the rationality community is still much less than what it could have been. "
This is exactly what I mean and I am looking to talk to people about that - hopefully WITHOUT first having to pass any "is this guy even worth talking to" tests... :-)
Thanks, Marcus.