If we want Less Wrong to achieve its goals of increasing the sanity waterline or attract minds to AI, we will need more publicity.
But at the same time, we don’t want to lessen the average quality of posts. Putting Less Wrong in a standard newspaper would definitely do that. If we were to do publicity, we should probably do so in a place where there is already some self-selection for intelligence/rationality. Wired would probably a good magazine for this.
Do you mean something like ”...people reading wired are people who would bristle at being told they aren’t already rational, because their self image depends greatly on seeing themselves as rational”?
If we want Less Wrong to achieve its goals of increasing the sanity waterline or attract minds to AI, we will need more publicity.
But at the same time, we don’t want to lessen the average quality of posts. Putting Less Wrong in a standard newspaper would definitely do that. If we were to do publicity, we should probably do so in a place where there is already some self-selection for intelligence/rationality. Wired would probably a good magazine for this.
I’m not sure, I get the impression the people reading wired are people who like to think of themselves as rational, but aren’t necessarily.
Do you mean something like ”...people reading wired are people who would bristle at being told they aren’t already rational, because their self image depends greatly on seeing themselves as rational”?
I mean that people reading wired tend to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
It’s a good thing we don’t do that!