nazgulnarsil comments on Playing Video Games In Shuffle Mode - Less Wrong

17 Post author: talisman 23 March 2009 11:59AM

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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 23 March 2009 08:58:59PM 3 points [-]

I feel like this should be one of the prime goals of this site. creating some sort of rationalist corpus that can take you from "you are a hominid living on planet three" to interacting with modern society.

if ideologies can have these why can't the simple truth? where is the rationalist manifesto?

Comment author: pjeby 23 March 2009 09:58:57PM *  1 point [-]

if ideologies can have these why can't the simple truth?

Because evolution doesn't give a damn about rationality, happiness, or fulfillment... and so did not equip our hardware to supply us with any of them in abundance.

(EDIT: ...which means that rationality isn't simple, for humans. Adding this because I'm guessing the downvotes are due to people not getting why what I said is a genuine answer to the question.)