Rationalist Baby Names

Status: always taking suggestions
Meaningfulness: representative of this blog

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Some baby names that sound relatively normal in the US and have rationalist/EA significance.

For their meaning

• Eve, Vivian, Chaim, Zoe, Aisha: “life”
• Stella, Aster, Andromeda, Sterling: “star, galaxy”
• Victor, Win: “win”
• Felicity, Joy: “happiness” (felicity is John Stuart Mill’s preferred word for utility)
• Destiny, Moira: “fate”
• Credence, Faith: “belief”
• Metis, Dexter, Takumi: “skill”
• Harmony: “coherent extrapolated volition”
• Alexis, Ezra: “help”
• Sophia, Talib, Osamu: “learning”

Now she’s just making puns

• Max: “optimize for”
• Lucy, Molly: “insight”
• Polly: “compersion”

In Honor of

• Viktor (Zhdanov)
• Vasili (Arkhipov)
• Stanislav (Petrov)
• Norman (Borlaug)
• Jeremy (Bentham)
• Derek (Parfit)
• Peter (Singer) [singer is also a great first name]
• Ada (Lovelace)
• Florence (Nightingale) [was actually hella badass]
• Harry (James Potter Evans-Verres)
• Roko

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