Now that would be a great extension of the LW community—a specific forum for people who want to make rationalist life decisions like that, to develop a more personal interaction and decrease subjective social costs.
I like it. Sure would beat the hell out of a lot of the advice I’ve heard, and if nothing else it would be good training in changing our minds and in aggregating evidence appropriately.
Now that would be a great extension of the LW community—a specific forum for people who want to make rationalist life decisions like that, to develop a more personal interaction and decrease subjective social costs.
It could be a more general advice-giving forum. Come and describe your problem, and we’ll present solutions.
That might also be a useful way to track the performance of rationalist methods in the real world.
I like it. Sure would beat the hell out of a lot of the advice I’ve heard, and if nothing else it would be good training in changing our minds and in aggregating evidence appropriately.