Different connotations than those of “rational,” but still some unfortunate ones: Reasonable means amenable to common sense, not absurd or shocking, not extreme, not controversial, etc.
Well, if we wanted something with no connotations at all, we should go with something like “Bayesian decision-theoretical”, but a tagline like “A community blog devoted to refining the art of applied Bayesian decision theory” wouldn’t sound as good. :-)
I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but I’m reminded of the twelfth virtue:
You may try to name the highest principle with names such as “the map that reflects the territory” or “experience of success and failure” or “Bayesian decision theory”. But perhaps you describe incorrectly the nameless virtue. How will you discover your mistake? Not by comparing your description to itself, but by comparing it to that which you did not name.
“applied Bayesian decision theory” seems to be a particularly bad case of not capturing what rationality is about.
Different connotations than those of “rational,” but still some unfortunate ones: Reasonable means amenable to common sense, not absurd or shocking, not extreme, not controversial, etc.
EY does use “sane”/“crazy” to mean ‘LW::rational’/‘LW::irrational’ somewhat often, which has those connotations to a much larger extent.
Well, if we wanted something with no connotations at all, we should go with something like “Bayesian decision-theoretical”, but a tagline like “A community blog devoted to refining the art of applied Bayesian decision theory” wouldn’t sound as good. :-)
I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but I’m reminded of the twelfth virtue:
“applied Bayesian decision theory” seems to be a particularly bad case of not capturing what rationality is about.
thinking that them sciency sounding words carry no connotations of status, oh the folly of youth. :p