Rain comments on Rationalists don't care about the future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rain 22 May 2011 12:46:48PM *  0 points [-]

You use the art of rationality to determine what you value

A process of discovery which uncovers things which came from where?

you use the art of rationality to determine how you should reflect on or change the process of determining what you value

A process of change which determines the direction things should go based on what?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 23 May 2011 03:06:21AM *  0 points [-]

You misunderstand, I'm not saying your values necessarily have to be 'rational' in some deep sense. I'm just saying that in order to figure out what your values might be, how they are related to each other, and what that means, you have to use something like rationality. I would also posit that in order to figure out what rocks are, how they are related to each other, and what that means, you have to use something like rationality. That obviously doesn't mean that values or rocks are 'rational', but it might mean you can notice interesting things about them you wouldn't have otherwise.

Comment author: Rain 23 May 2011 01:06:26PM 0 points [-]

I agree with this statement.

I'm sorry to have continued the argument when I was apparently unclear.