I used to have it as an avatar in another (totally unrelated) forum for a month or so. I hoped that it would spark some curiosity and that I would be able to redirect some people to the site. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. On the contrary, wearing this t-shirt made many people curious enough that I managed to get them interested in some high energy physics topics.
Why am I telling you that? Well, LW can use a bit of marketing, I guess, but if this is the case, remember: shiny and colorful things attract more people (and thieving magpies, of course).
Well yeah—it’s math. And unlabeled math at that. It’s practically a secret handshake.
But without the unifying idea of how an ideally rational agent works, which isn’t easy for everyone to understand, rationality is a collection of tips and funny stories, difficult to find a visual for. Perhaps a visual illustrating an obvious, measured failure of rationality would work. But that would still require words, and so would be out of place in other contexts with words, like business cards.
Kinda.
I used to have it as an avatar in another (totally unrelated) forum for a month or so. I hoped that it would spark some curiosity and that I would be able to redirect some people to the site. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. On the contrary, wearing this t-shirt made many people curious enough that I managed to get them interested in some high energy physics topics.
Why am I telling you that? Well, LW can use a bit of marketing, I guess, but if this is the case, remember: shiny and colorful things attract more people (and thieving magpies, of course).
Well yeah—it’s math. And unlabeled math at that. It’s practically a secret handshake.
But without the unifying idea of how an ideally rational agent works, which isn’t easy for everyone to understand, rationality is a collection of tips and funny stories, difficult to find a visual for. Perhaps a visual illustrating an obvious, measured failure of rationality would work. But that would still require words, and so would be out of place in other contexts with words, like business cards.