Yeah, InIn was the main attempt at this. Gleb was able to get a large number of articles published in news sources, but at the cost of quality. And some people felt that this would make people perceive rationality negatively, as well as drawing in people from the wrong demographic. I think he was improving over time, but perhaps too slowly?
It actually was around october that i found clearerthinking.org by googling reason vs. emotion. I friended Spencer Greenberg on FB and asked him if there was some movement/community around this.
He advised me to check out RATIONALISM, LW and EA.
Just check my above posts if you please, I hope i finde the time to post a new version of RATIONALITY FOR THE MASSES here soon...
What is your background? (ie. why are you not like those LW folks?)
I mean: I am so reliefed to get some positive feedbacks here, while LW only gave me ignorance and disqualification...
You can bet I will be pursuing this vision.
I only heard about LW / EA etc a few months ago.
I was VERY surprised no one has done it before. I basically only asked around to
(Now that I got a taste of the LW community I am a little less surprised, though… :-) )
The closest NGO I could find so far is InIn, but they still have a different focus.
And even this forum here was rather hidden...
Anyway:
Your response is the first/only ENCOURAGING one I got so far.
If you happen to remember anyone who was even only writing about this somewhere, let me know.
Yeah, InIn was the main attempt at this. Gleb was able to get a large number of articles published in news sources, but at the cost of quality. And some people felt that this would make people perceive rationality negatively, as well as drawing in people from the wrong demographic. I think he was improving over time, but perhaps too slowly?
PS. Have you seen this? https://www.clearerthinking.org
Haha! Bulls Eye!
It actually was around october that i found clearerthinking.org by googling reason vs. emotion. I friended Spencer Greenberg on FB and asked him if there was some movement/community around this.
He advised me to check out RATIONALISM, LW and EA.
Just check my above posts if you please, I hope i finde the time to post a new version of RATIONALITY FOR THE MASSES here soon...
What is your background? (ie. why are you not like those LW folks?)
I mean: I am so reliefed to get some positive feedbacks here, while LW only gave me ignorance and disqualification...