The Craft And The Codex

A short meta-reflection on the rationalist project. Rationality began as a 'martial art,' then a 'craft' -- and the felt sense now is that the craft of rationality has progressed LEAST (vs AI alignment, which became a field, and EA, now big and professionalized). Scott's defense of what SSC does: the blog is the 'dojo' -- the endless drudgery of practicing rationality on hard real cases (Piketty, when-to-trust-science) to hone illegible intuitions that explicit techniques can't capture, with the comments as community rationality practice.

Quality 67 · Strong. Strong (67). A clear, insightful meta-reflection with a memorable self-understanding (the blog as a rationality 'dojo'; the 'illegible intuitions about when science is wrong' point is genuine). Capped in Strong by brevity and an inward, community-facing scope.

Claude’s paradigm shift 45 · Moderate. Moderate (45). The rationality-as-craft / martial-art framing is Eliezer's; the fresh bit is the 'blog as dojo for hard cases' self-understanding -- a modest reframing.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. 2 -- minor/within-blog. Articulates a self-understanding for the rationalist community; within-community influence, no material footprint.