My lead guess is that the barriers and tricky spots we ran into are somewhat similar to those that lots of efforts at self-help / human potential movement / etc. things have run into
It was a long time before I placed rationalism in what I now think of as its proper context. Or rather, two contexts: the human potential movement, and the tradition that Drexler calls “exploratory engineering” (≈L5 society culture).
And I don’t think it was just me that missed this; Scott’s Yes, We Have Noticed The Skulls seems to be looking at a completely different reference class (and even says we’re making new mistakes, the opposite of your later conclusion).
I’d be interested in whatever you have to say about this context or how you acquired it (not necessarily recently, I realize). It seems like an important subject, and if you’re restarting CFAR workshops I suppose you must have had some sources to conclude that you’re not making the familiar mistakes this time.
Interesting to see what you’ve been reading, but I’m also wondering if you’ve been reading about the history of the human potential movement.
Previously you wrote:
It was a long time before I placed rationalism in what I now think of as its proper context. Or rather, two contexts: the human potential movement, and the tradition that Drexler calls “exploratory engineering” (≈L5 society culture).
And I don’t think it was just me that missed this; Scott’s Yes, We Have Noticed The Skulls seems to be looking at a completely different reference class (and even says we’re making new mistakes, the opposite of your later conclusion).
I’d be interested in whatever you have to say about this context or how you acquired it (not necessarily recently, I realize). It seems like an important subject, and if you’re restarting CFAR workshops I suppose you must have had some sources to conclude that you’re not making the familiar mistakes this time.