FormallyknownasRoko comments on Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy - Less Wrong
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True ... but I suspect that people who end up here do so because they basically take more-than-averagely literally the verbally endorsed beliefs of the herd. Rationality as memetic immune disorder, failure to compartmentalize etc.
Perhaps I should amend my original comment to say that if you are cognitively very different from the herd, you may want to use a bit of rationality/self-development like a corrective lens. You'll have to run compartmentalization in software.
Maybe I should try to start a new trend: use {compartmentalization} when you want to invalidate an inference which most people would not make because of compartmentalization?
E.g. "I think all human lives are equally valuable"
"Then why did you spend $1000 on an ipad rather than giving it to Givewell?"
"I refute it thus: {compartmentalization: nearmode/farmode}"