rysade comments on Plant Seeds of Rationality - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 10 March 2011 05:51PM

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Comment author: rysade 10 March 2011 10:51:06PM 2 points [-]

I agree. Doing the kind of thing that lukeprog is talking about would be more akin creating the environment where stem cells specialize into skin, bone or muscle cells. We would be creating an environment that rewards rationality, which would guide them into morphing into more rational people.

Is speculating on whether a metaphor is suitable an appropriate topic for Less Wrong?

Comment author: wedrifid 10 March 2011 11:51:04PM 1 point [-]

Is speculating on whether a metaphor is suitable an appropriate topic for Less Wrong?

It may be more of an OvercomingBias thing although it certainly crops up here from time to time too. We call it "Reference Class Tennis". ;)