I thought it sounded like it’s meant as an introduction to LessWrong. Especially with those recommended links toward the end. People who already read this site aren’t the target audience.
I especially want to attract people in academia and positions of intellectual leadership to being actively and morally rational, since their attitudes spread to their students and apprentices. When you have an intelligent mentor who isn’t using her intelligence to directly analyze and improve her own life, you’re unconsciously less convinced it’s a fruitful pursuit. When the opposite happens, it can really start a cascade.
Provided such a cascade preserves peoples’ sense of morality, which requires some serious care to ensure, it can be a great thing for them and the people around them.
I thought it sounded like it’s meant as an introduction to LessWrong. Especially with those recommended links toward the end. People who already read this site aren’t the target audience.
And it could also be a compendium of arguments for LW readers to use to convince non-LW readers to try checking in on quality of life.
sqrt(-1) and Nancy got my intentions :)
I especially want to attract people in academia and positions of intellectual leadership to being actively and morally rational, since their attitudes spread to their students and apprentices. When you have an intelligent mentor who isn’t using her intelligence to directly analyze and improve her own life, you’re unconsciously less convinced it’s a fruitful pursuit. When the opposite happens, it can really start a cascade.
Provided such a cascade preserves peoples’ sense of morality, which requires some serious care to ensure, it can be a great thing for them and the people around them.