Icons of Instrumentally
Puns, because it is yummy.
Metaphors used at Less Wrong like:
- Scout (from Julia Galef’s book The Scout Mindset)
- Map / Territory
- Stars (value out in space)
- Ground (being grounded in reality)
- Forecasting Binoculars
- Bugs (from CFAR, via programming)
- Fruitful
- Pie form (Game theory, pareto superior, etc)
- Raven (ravenclaw in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality)
- Elephant in the Brain (from the book that is highly liked in the community)
- Backpack (refer to in Elephant in the Brain)
- Flashlight (Lightcone infrastructure, seeing through uncertain territories)
- Instruments
- Instrumental Rationality
- Instruments to meassure accurately
- Ally
- Cards