I'm Screwtape, also known as Skyler. I'm an aspiring rationalist originally introduced to the community through HPMoR, and I stayed around because the writers here kept improving how I thought. I'm fond of the Rationality As A Martial Art metaphor, new mental tools to make my life better, and meeting people who are strange in ways I find familiar and comfortable. If you're ever in the Boston area, feel free to say hi.
Starting early in 2023, I'm the ACX Meetups Czar. You might also know me from the New York City Rationalist Megameetup, editing the Animorphs: The Reckoning podfic, or being that guy at meetups with a bright bandanna who gets really excited when people bring up indie tabletop roleplaying games.
I recognize that last description might fit more than one person.
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LessWrong vs Overcoming Bias
... Last night I found out the other half to that story, which has been a mystery to me for something like five years now, and somehow the event became even more stressful in retrospect.
(No, I do not plan to elaborate on this one.)
1Babbling ideas:
- Frontpage and backpage
- On-topic and anything-goes
- Priority and standard
- Major league and minor league
- Rationality (use the tag) and all other tags.
- More magic and magic
To the extent you're saying that the "Personal" name for the category is confusing, I agree. I'm not sure what a better name is, but I'd like to use one.
Have we considered "Discussion" and "Main"?
(Context for anyone more recent than ~2016, this is a joke, those were the labels that old LessWrong used.)
Looks like it passed hands and the holder forgot to re-register the domain, I've sniped the domain and stuck a copy of this post on there for now. DMing you with more details.
Noting that I use the banner as breadcrumb navigation relatively often, clicking LessWrong to go back to the homepage or my username to get a menu and go to my drafts. The banner is useful to me as a place to reach those menus.
No idea how common that use pattern is.
Answered in my response to PhilH above!
So, by default I think this fails to teach anyone involved a useful rationality skill. I'm imagining a crowd comes together, you make a short speech about how Harris is great, and then the attendees mingle and talk to each other. Attendees might enjoy it and that's not pointless, but it's not something I'd be excited about.
If I somehow was placed in the position of having to run the linked meetup, my best idea in five minutes would be to arrange to give a short speech. That speech would consist of Policy Debates Should Not Appear Onesided, Correspondence Bias, and how I viewed prediction markets as a useful tool in how Harris got selected so pay attention to news reports with prediction market odds in them.
There's probably a better way to run the meetup. I came up with that in about five minutes, based on the skills and knowledge I have. Anyone have an idea that beats that?
Less vs Wrong