AndrewH comments on Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate - Less Wrong

132 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 March 2009 08:37AM

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Comment author: pjeby 20 March 2009 04:07:31PM 11 points [-]

It doesn't have to bring new thoughts to serve a purpose. A chorus of agreement is an emotional amplifier.

Comment author: AndrewH 20 March 2009 09:02:25PM 4 points [-]

Not only that, it becomes a glue that binds people together, the more agreement the stronger the binding (and the more that get bound). At least that is the analogy that I use when I look at this; we (rationalists) have no glue, they (religions) have too much.