I suspect the answer is “no”. But I don’t know why you would correct for intelligence &c. in your analysis. Attracting a group of intelligent people is kinda hard to pull off and of course many, many tradeoffs will be made to make it possible.
People who are doing well enough already won’t be drawn to something with self-improvement as one of its de facto major selling points.
If rationalists produce valuable memes, those memes are likely to enter popular culture and lose their association with rationalists. Who credits sociology for inventing the term “role model”?
People who are doing well enough already won’t be drawn to something with self-improvement as one of its de facto major selling points.
This is probably true in general, but LW overlaps with H+ memes, and H+ is radical self improvement, meaning that LW might attract people who are doing well, but aspire to be doing even better.
Besides, I think the people who look for self-improvement because they are not doing well would be more interested in e.g. tackling depression which is a small minority of LW content.
Do rationalists win when confounding factors of intelligence, conscientiousness, and anything else we can find are corrected for?
Do they make more money? Have greater life satisfaction? Fewer avoidable tragedies? Reliably bootstrap themselves out of mental and physical problems?
I’m not sure what the answer is.
I suspect the answer is “no”. But I don’t know why you would correct for intelligence &c. in your analysis. Attracting a group of intelligent people is kinda hard to pull off and of course many, many tradeoffs will be made to make it possible.
People who are doing well enough already won’t be drawn to something with self-improvement as one of its de facto major selling points.
If rationalists produce valuable memes, those memes are likely to enter popular culture and lose their association with rationalists. Who credits sociology for inventing the term “role model”?
This is probably true in general, but LW overlaps with H+ memes, and H+ is radical self improvement, meaning that LW might attract people who are doing well, but aspire to be doing even better.
Besides, I think the people who look for self-improvement because they are not doing well would be more interested in e.g. tackling depression which is a small minority of LW content.