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Comment author: RichardKennaway 20 July 2009 10:45:43AM 14 points [-]

The epistemic rationality of LessWrong is worth more than the gender ratio we have. A 95% male community that manages to overcome a whole host of problems in instrumental and epistemic rationality is worth more to the world than a 80% male community that is crippled by a blood-feud between a feminist faction and a masculinist faction.

Like the politician said, if I can set the agenda it doesn't matter how anyone votes.

How about an 80% male community that manages to overcome a whole host of problems in instrumental and epistemic rationality, including the one we are looking straight at?

This is it. Right here, right now. Solve this problem.

Comment author: bogus 20 July 2009 02:41:54PM *  0 points [-]

Make no mistake: this is not a problem in "instrumental and epistemic rationality", it is a problem in politics. We simply cannot afford to appeal to some sort of "rational", god's-eye-view ideology and lose our real world credibility.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 July 2009 03:22:13PM 8 points [-]

And politics is outside the scope of rationality how?

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