SarahC comments on Rationality is Not an Attractive Tribe - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Alexandros 23 November 2010 02:08PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 November 2010 05:43:31PM 6 points [-]

I think that may be part of an explanation; but while there are positive consequences to specialization, one of the negative consequences is that fewer people know basic science. That's probably bad for rationality.