… actually, the rest of that reply is a good comment on “ambiguous impact on health”:
That said, I think that the rationality project broadly construed has often fallen into a failure mode of trying to do radically ambitious stuff without first solidly mastering the boring and bog standard basics. This led to often undershooting, not just our ambitions, but the more boring baselines.
We aimed to be faster than science. But, in practice, I think we often didn’t meet the epistemic standards of a reasonably healthy scientific subfield.
If I invest substantial effort in rationality development in the future, I intend to first focus on doing the basics really well before trying for superhuman rationality.
… actually, the rest of that reply is a good comment on “ambiguous impact on health”: