OK. So, I’m not sure how this came up in my newsfeed, but since I’m here I’ll take the bait and reply.
So. I do not mean to offend, but aren’t you guys, like, full of it?
You’re charging 4 grand for a “rationality workshop”? Now, considering that it’ll cost me 250$ to spend 2 weeks in a graduate-level summer school on logic—the same summer school that has freely made all of their lecture videos for the past six years free to view online—what secret and hidden gems of wisdom am I to gain from paying you fifteen times as much for an extended weekend of unknown value?
You’re claiming to be “improving the world” but all I see your mission boiling down to is scamming a bunch rich kids with more money than brains out of their cash. I don’t need to be the one to tell you that if you actually wanted to “improve the world” you’d be making all of your hidden gems of wisdom free for the people who would benefit from them most (if any of them actually provide any benefit).
Of course you “can’t” because that would deprive you of funding for your “mission”. So instead lets sprinkle some buzzwords like “cognitive science” all over your webpage and see who takes the bait instead! (Conveniently there’s no mention anywhere that no one on your team actually has any qualifications in cogntive science. But degrees are for hacks anyway, amirite?)
The saddest part is that despite your enormously prohibitive prices of attendance, you STILL hunger for more money and try to get it for free with your “donation runs”—and there are gullible people willing to give it to you for nothing in return (This is precisely why you people think you lot are a cult).
And if my words sound harsh, well, why not do what every LWer does when confronted with the fact that their “rationality” is a sham? Cover your ears and keep repeating “newcombs paradox” until the cognitive dissonance goes away!
OK. So, I’m not sure how this came up in my newsfeed, but since I’m here I’ll take the bait and reply.
So. I do not mean to offend, but aren’t you guys, like, full of it?
You’re charging 4 grand for a “rationality workshop”? Now, considering that it’ll cost me 250$ to spend 2 weeks in a graduate-level summer school on logic—the same summer school that has freely made all of their lecture videos for the past six years free to view online—what secret and hidden gems of wisdom am I to gain from paying you fifteen times as much for an extended weekend of unknown value?
You’re claiming to be “improving the world” but all I see your mission boiling down to is scamming a bunch rich kids with more money than brains out of their cash. I don’t need to be the one to tell you that if you actually wanted to “improve the world” you’d be making all of your hidden gems of wisdom free for the people who would benefit from them most (if any of them actually provide any benefit).
Of course you “can’t” because that would deprive you of funding for your “mission”. So instead lets sprinkle some buzzwords like “cognitive science” all over your webpage and see who takes the bait instead! (Conveniently there’s no mention anywhere that no one on your team actually has any qualifications in cogntive science. But degrees are for hacks anyway, amirite?)
The saddest part is that despite your enormously prohibitive prices of attendance, you STILL hunger for more money and try to get it for free with your “donation runs”—and there are gullible people willing to give it to you for nothing in return (This is precisely why you people think you lot are a cult).
And if my words sound harsh, well, why not do what every LWer does when confronted with the fact that their “rationality” is a sham? Cover your ears and keep repeating “newcombs paradox” until the cognitive dissonance goes away!