Bongo comments on What Cost for Irrationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bongo 03 July 2010 10:37:18PM 2 points [-]

A rationality-resister doesn't mean the same thing with "rationality" as a rationalist does. It's just something that nerds refer to to humiliate them in debates. Not techniques for constructing a map that fits the territory, etc. They probably don't even have a concept for that.

Therefore: maybe you can turn rationality-resisters into rationalists if you teach them rationality but don't call it rationality and don't attack their beliefs. (Eliezer's sequences taught rationality without attacking, for example, religion (too often), but a lot of people were probably turned off from reading them by just the word rationality).