Even in spaces where truth seeking is valued, time is valuable as well. When I sit together with a bunch of rationalists and the discussion is about what to cook for dinner there no benefit to waiting very long and it’s quite okay when someone makes a reasonable decision to cook in a cached way.
I think I should probably reverse my original statement to “where intelligence/creativity/truthseeking is important” (similar sentence but narrows it down the focus—group intelligence and creativity usually don’t matter for picking food, unless several people care about getting unusual/interesting food and roughly agree with each other on what kind to get)
The metanorm of “figure out what norm to use” is still important. But I do still assert that “the 12 second rule is a norm that should be used much more often i.e. at all in most rationalist discussion spaces”
Even in spaces where truth seeking is valued, time is valuable as well. When I sit together with a bunch of rationalists and the discussion is about what to cook for dinner there no benefit to waiting very long and it’s quite okay when someone makes a reasonable decision to cook in a cached way.
Agreed.
I think I should probably reverse my original statement to “where intelligence/creativity/truthseeking is important” (similar sentence but narrows it down the focus—group intelligence and creativity usually don’t matter for picking food, unless several people care about getting unusual/interesting food and roughly agree with each other on what kind to get)
The metanorm of “figure out what norm to use” is still important. But I do still assert that “the 12 second rule is a norm that should be used much more often i.e. at all in most rationalist discussion spaces”