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Why are you so concerned with being able to maintain rationality even in altered or brain-damaged states? This has come up in different contexts in several recent posts.
It seems like an unnecessary bit of rationalist machismo. It's enough of a challenge to create rational, intelligent work when at normal functionality, optimizing for ability to withstand brainwashing or brain damage doesn't seem to me to be an important priority.
Does it have something to do with wondering whether you are now in a diminished state, simply due to humanity's inherent biases and frailties?
Waking states of healthy normal humans are brain damaged (relative to an ideal reimplementation not slapped together hodge-podge by iteratively mutating a monkey). And yet we must be rational.