Following up on an impromptu list XiXiDu made of famous recent scientists & thinkers who also held quite odd beliefs, I’ve created a wiki article with that list & a few other people.
This Discussion is posted for feedback on a few points:
Is this a good idea in the first place? I feel vaguely uneasy, like it could be taken as a ‘hit list’ or a list of inviolable norms.
What’s a better name? ‘Irrationalists’ is a bad name but the only half-way self-explanatory one I could think of at the moment.
Who’s missing? There are currently only 8 people on the list right now.
Is it reasonable to limit the list temporally only to people who lived in the 20th century & later, and so had access to all the data and philosophy done then that we take for granted?
I added in a few ‘See Alsos’ that I could think of; are there more germane wiki articles? Especially LW articles? (I know Aumann in particular has been discussed occasionally by Eliezer—worth linking directly?)
List of compartmentalized people (who both win and fail at truth-seeking)
Following up on an impromptu list XiXiDu made of famous recent scientists & thinkers who also held quite odd beliefs, I’ve created a wiki article with that list & a few other people.
This Discussion is posted for feedback on a few points:
Is this a good idea in the first place? I feel vaguely uneasy, like it could be taken as a ‘hit list’ or a list of inviolable norms.
What’s a better name? ‘Irrationalists’ is a bad name but the only half-way self-explanatory one I could think of at the moment.
Who’s missing? There are currently only 8 people on the list right now.
Is it reasonable to limit the list temporally only to people who lived in the 20th century & later, and so had access to all the data and philosophy done then that we take for granted?
I added in a few ‘See Alsos’ that I could think of; are there more germane wiki articles? Especially LW articles? (I know Aumann in particular has been discussed occasionally by Eliezer—worth linking directly?)