AlexU comments on Helpless Individuals - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2009 11:10AM

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Comment author: AlexU 31 March 2009 05:32:00AM *  6 points [-]

I've noticed that many of the meta-posts here are premised on the belief that being interested in rationality (or being interesting in identifying oneself with a community of "rationalists") is strongly correlated with actually being more rational. I wouldn't be surprised if this were indeed the case, as compared to average; however, I'd be very hesitant to simply assume that people here are "atypically rational" as compared to, say, another Internet community comprising similarly high-IQ individuals, but with no special interest in rationality per se.