Yeah, if we went for a full history of rationality we definitely would have mentioned him. We haven’t because I don’t think he had much of an influence over the “Skeptics” brand of rationality, which we talked about as the popular form of rationality before Eliezer. I think one of the things that distinguished Eliezer’s form of rationality was that he integrated Korzybski’s ideas into it.
Ah, of course!
Yeah, if we went for a full history of rationality we definitely would have mentioned him. We haven’t because I don’t think he had much of an influence over the “Skeptics” brand of rationality, which we talked about as the popular form of rationality before Eliezer. I think one of the things that distinguished Eliezer’s form of rationality was that he integrated Korzybski’s ideas into it.