Popularizing ideas from contemporary cognitive science and naturalized philosophy seems like a pretty worthy goal in and of itself. I wonder to what extent the “Less Wrong” identity helps this (by providing a convenient label and reference point), and to what extend it hurts (by providing an opportunity to dismiss ideas as “that Less Wrong phyg”). I suspect the former dominates, but the latter might be heard from more.
Popularizing ideas from contemporary cognitive science and naturalized philosophy seems like a pretty worthy goal in and of itself. I wonder to what extent the “Less Wrong” identity helps this (by providing a convenient label and reference point), and to what extend it hurts (by providing an opportunity to dismiss ideas as “that Less Wrong phyg”). I suspect the former dominates, but the latter might be heard from more.
Popularization is better without novel jargon though.
Unless there are especially important concepts that lack labels (or lack adequate labels).