I’ve rewritten this post for the EA Forum, to help introduce more EAs to rationalist culture and norms. The rewrite goes into more detail about a lot of the points, explaining jargon, motivating some of the less intuitive norms, etc. I expect some folks will prefer that version, and some will prefer the LW version.
(One shortcoming of the EA Forum version is that it’s less concise. Another shortcoming is that there’s more chance I got stuff wrong, since I erred on the side of “spell things out more in the hope of conveying more of the spirit to people who are new to this stuff”, rather than “leave more implicit so that the things I say out loud can all be things I feel really confident about”.)
I’ve rewritten this post for the EA Forum, to help introduce more EAs to rationalist culture and norms. The rewrite goes into more detail about a lot of the points, explaining jargon, motivating some of the less intuitive norms, etc. I expect some folks will prefer that version, and some will prefer the LW version.
(One shortcoming of the EA Forum version is that it’s less concise. Another shortcoming is that there’s more chance I got stuff wrong, since I erred on the side of “spell things out more in the hope of conveying more of the spirit to people who are new to this stuff”, rather than “leave more implicit so that the things I say out loud can all be things I feel really confident about”.)