Lives Of The Rationalist Saints

Mock-hagiographies in the 'Lives of the Saints' form, each 'saint' a rationalist/EA virtue pushed to absurd extremes: St. Felix crucified for refusing to round his COVID-origin probability up one point (Tetlock said the last digit carries information); St. John of Daly City and the Ultra-Both-Sidesists; St. Madeline dosing charisma supplements down to exactly average so people update on her correctly; St. Joanne of ARC stalling three suitors by running BusyBeaver(100); St. Avi resisting Moloch's temptation to found an AI lab. Affectionate in-group satire, dense with community references (modafinil, shrimp welfare, corrigibility, calibration, Lighthaven).

Quality 62 · Strong. Strong band (floor). Tight, charming, and well-observed for its audience, but slight and almost entirely in-jokey - it requires deep rationalist-culture fluency to parse and carries no portable insight beyond the gentle roast. A=62.

Claude’s paradigm shift 32 · Slight. Slight. The saints'-lives conceit applied to rationalists is a cute form, not a novel idea. B=32.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. Affectionate in-group mock-hagiographies of rationalist virtues; slight, deeply insidery satire with no portable insight or material-world reach → RWI 1.

Humor 3/5 · Scissor Statement. Sustained rationalist/EA inside-baseball comedy — a series of mock-hagiographies ('Lives of the Saints' parody): St. Felix crucified for refusing to round 79%→80% (Tetlock's last digit), the Ultra-Both-Sidesist who dissolves his own order, St. Joanne of ARC stalling Altman/Musk with BusyBeaver(100), Avi rebuffing Moloch with 'say AI company not AI lab'; dense and clever → 3.