PhilGoetz comments on If reason told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 21 December 2009 06:12:36AM *  4 points [-]

The most recent financial crisis is a another example of what happens when reason is allowed to dominate. Cutting away all the foggy noise & conspiracy theories, the root cause of the financial crisis was that men who believed a little too much in reason became divergent from reality and reality quickly reminded them of that.

How can you say reason failed them, when they made so much money?

Comment author: Technologos 21 December 2009 07:35:45PM 2 points [-]

Made and continue to make. One wonders if they might not actually be rather prime examples of Winning in a practical though perhaps corrupted sense.