Similarly, a rationalist isn’t just somebody who respects the Truth.
All too many people respect the Truth.
A rationalist is somebody who respects the processes of finding truth.
To start making lists, there need to be already enough things that could become norms and are clearly relevant to rationality, in its non-inflated sense. Norms are ornery beasts, they require great robustness in their targeting such that there is little damage when they start tramping all over nuance, and you can’t swap them out once they are in place.
I tried experimenting with framing my comments in terms of norms or norm design recently, and the only things that that I found relevant with any consistency is Scott’s asymmetric weapons, and incentives that make them more applicable (though it’s a tricky point, I’ve made a mistake of over-applying it only 3 days ago).
I think most good discourse norms fail to be relevant to rationality in particular, so it’s important to avoid any association between them and rationality.
To start making lists, there need to be already enough things that could become norms and are clearly relevant to rationality, in its non-inflated sense. Norms are ornery beasts, they require great robustness in their targeting such that there is little damage when they start tramping all over nuance, and you can’t swap them out once they are in place.