Yes! Combating cognitive biases by thinking really carefully is all very well, and totally appropriate if you’re trying to design a machine that can take over the world, but in everyday life we just can’t do everything in manual mode. I’ve been wondering lately if I wouldn’t benefit more from reading a blog called More Right, if such a thing existed.
I’ve had similar thoughts for quite a while and I realized that “more right” had all kinds of emotional connotations that I wasn’t sure were a good idea. I was thinking that something like More Helpful would offer a better framing. Instead of cultivating rationality, it would be cultivating something like “pro-social efficacy”.
Yes! Combating cognitive biases by thinking really carefully is all very well, and totally appropriate if you’re trying to design a machine that can take over the world, but in everyday life we just can’t do everything in manual mode. I’ve been wondering lately if I wouldn’t benefit more from reading a blog called More Right, if such a thing existed.
I’ve had similar thoughts for quite a while and I realized that “more right” had all kinds of emotional connotations that I wasn’t sure were a good idea. I was thinking that something like More Helpful would offer a better framing. Instead of cultivating rationality, it would be cultivating something like “pro-social efficacy”.
I like it. I would be in favor of changing the name of the community to Less Wrong and More Helpful.
There have been other online communities with very high standards of rationality, but none that combine it with as much actual desire to help people.