Fair enough, but Less Wrong does have a lot of articles about self-help and these do seem to have arisen from early discussions about the meaning of the phrase “rationalists should win”.
Yes, but not all self-help needs to involve positive affirmations.
I was going to ask whether repeating positive statements about oneself has actually been recommended on lesswrong. Then I remembered this post. Perhaps that post would have made a more suitable target than the claim that rationalists should win.
Wouldn’t a rationalist looking to win simply welcome this study along with any other evidence about what does or does not work?
“Rationalists should win” isn’t a self-help philosophy or a way of improving self-esteem. It’s a logical statement about the concept of a rationalist.
Fair enough, but Less Wrong does have a lot of articles about self-help and these do seem to have arisen from early discussions about the meaning of the phrase “rationalists should win”.
Yes, but not all self-help needs to involve positive affirmations.
I was going to ask whether repeating positive statements about oneself has actually been recommended on lesswrong. Then I remembered this post. Perhaps that post would have made a more suitable target than the claim that rationalists should win.
Wouldn’t a rationalist looking to win simply welcome this study along with any other evidence about what does or does not work?