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Comment author: MichaelVassar 23 May 2010 12:39:34PM *  3 points [-]

These seem to me to be very sound criticisms and to pretty much defeat the main argument. It's pretty obvious that rationality helps to climb from 0 to 2 and that it helps a lot. I'm going to be waiting to see whether this is a good enough rationalist community to converge in the recognition of critical flaws in arguments by voting the comment above way up.

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/how-about-a-beer/ is topical

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 26 May 2010 04:22:45AM 0 points [-]

If there were utility premiums for being more rational, people would expend effort learning the techniques.

This is an assumption, not a proven fact. Since it's basically the contested issue, your reasoning is circular.