MichaelVassar comments on The Tragedy of the Social Epistemology Commons - Less Wrong
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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
This is an assumption, not a proven fact. Since it's basically the contested issue, your reasoning is circular.