Comment on A Rational Education

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:57:47 GMT

Also, there's little virtue in not using abilities you don't have on moral grounds

There's some virtue in not acquiring those abilities if you think there's no decent use for them.

Very seriously, those who relinquish the known dark arts will invent their own path to the abyss, a path without the protective guard-rails and warning signs worked out by billions of predecessors. We end up self-deceiving in unusual ways, but predictable ways for someone who has met enough rationalists.

Examples for both?

Do you find that all influential people use what rationalists would call Dark Arts? Do you think that there's such a thing as influence which tends to make people more clear-headed?

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