Get better metrics on what works when teaching rationality. Talk to all the rationalist/adjacent training groups, ask what metric they think they’re improving, check if graduates of each group is improving on the metrics of all the groups, control against general population and the social rationalists.
Once we know what works (or if someone knows something I don’t about what works), start getting it taught broadly. Teach more instructors, make inroads on the education systems, backchain from “X years from now, random people on the street know how to do this.” The win condition is e.g. calibration being taught in grade school at least as often as we teach arithmetic.
A stable, user friendly crossposter for events. It’s pretty common for someone to want an event to exist on multiple of Facebook, LessWrong, Partiful, Meetup.com, a Google group mailing list, a Discord event, a Google calendar, announced in Telegram, announced in Whatsapp, announced in Instagram, etc. “Here’s the time, here’s the place, here’s the plaintext title and the plaintext description. Realistically this would be a constant pain to maintain as APIs changed, but I do think the math pencils out.
The go-wide version of a rationalist conference. EAGs get above a thousand people, and I think they’re the biggest events in the adjacent space. Fandom or industry conferences in the mid-four digits aren’t hard to find, and there’s things with five digit counts. Plausibly the juice isn’t worth the squeeze here; you can’t meaningfully talk to all the people at a Manifest or an EAG already. And yet DEF CON exists and afaik is considered pretty valuable by those who partake.
Translations of the sequences or HPMOR into other languages. Maps of rationalist activity are mostly heatmaps of English speakers, with the exception of Germany being a notable outlier. Harry Potter was pretty popular in China!
could you share a few of these?
Get better metrics on what works when teaching rationality. Talk to all the rationalist/adjacent training groups, ask what metric they think they’re improving, check if graduates of each group is improving on the metrics of all the groups, control against general population and the social rationalists.
Once we know what works (or if someone knows something I don’t about what works), start getting it taught broadly. Teach more instructors, make inroads on the education systems, backchain from “X years from now, random people on the street know how to do this.” The win condition is e.g. calibration being taught in grade school at least as often as we teach arithmetic.
A stable, user friendly crossposter for events. It’s pretty common for someone to want an event to exist on multiple of Facebook, LessWrong, Partiful, Meetup.com, a Google group mailing list, a Discord event, a Google calendar, announced in Telegram, announced in Whatsapp, announced in Instagram, etc. “Here’s the time, here’s the place, here’s the plaintext title and the plaintext description. Realistically this would be a constant pain to maintain as APIs changed, but I do think the math pencils out.
The go-wide version of a rationalist conference. EAGs get above a thousand people, and I think they’re the biggest events in the adjacent space. Fandom or industry conferences in the mid-four digits aren’t hard to find, and there’s things with five digit counts. Plausibly the juice isn’t worth the squeeze here; you can’t meaningfully talk to all the people at a Manifest or an EAG already. And yet DEF CON exists and afaik is considered pretty valuable by those who partake.
Translations of the sequences or HPMOR into other languages. Maps of rationalist activity are mostly heatmaps of English speakers, with the exception of Germany being a notable outlier. Harry Potter was pretty popular in China!