MrMind comments on Reasons for being rational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrMind 29 June 2011 09:02:47AM *  4 points [-]

I think that as rationalists, we are the ultimate conformists. It only happens, in this day and age, that the majority of people is somehow wrong about reality. But the fact that we agree to the existence of an ultimate truth and that we cannot rationally agree to disagree, should makes us the most uniform group in history. Biases and tendencies to conform/contrast indexical social groups are just going in the way of reaching consensus.

By the way, there's nothing wrong in being moved or being mystically exalted by some piece of literature/music/etc. I was moved by the ending of Stephen King's It, but that doesn't mean I started to believe in interdimensional giant spider. You just probably fall on the orchid's side of the genetic variance.

Comment author: byrnema 29 June 2011 02:14:59PM *  0 points [-]

You just probably fall on the orchid's side of the genetic variance.

Interesting article. But as more agreeable, wouldn't she fall on the other side?

Comment author: MrMind 29 June 2011 09:07:45AM 0 points [-]

I'm sorry for the duplicated post. Apparently Firefox is a little at odds with the new layout.

(ok ok, I was also wrong in pressing "Comment" the second and the third time when the first click didn't yeld any result)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 June 2011 10:07:52AM 0 points [-]

While the comment deletion feature is unavailable, you can ask a moderator to ban your comments that you want deleted. (Removed the duplicates.)