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

-12 Post author: Shalmanese 21 December 2009 03:54AM

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Comment author: abigailgem 22 December 2009 02:26:49PM 3 points [-]

"cleverness" comes to mind as a better substitute

Or "Hubris". In the examples, the people go wrong not because they are using reason and they should not use reason, but because they falsely imagine they are capable of using reason sufficiently to deal with the particular issue.