Eugine_Nier comments on Reasons for being rational - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Swimmer963 01 July 2011 03:28PM

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Comment author: zntneo 01 July 2011 04:26:49PM *  2 points [-]

As someone who is both into the skeptics movement and the atheist movement i'm not sure what skeptics "wouldn't dare mutter" about. It seems to me that skeptics and atheists just have and interest in those things and want to stop the harm caused by them.

Also, i must be ignorant about all these other horrible delusions you are talking about.

Further you must be talking about instrumental rationality because i'm not sure how this is evidence against epistemic rationality.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 July 2011 03:20:08AM *  2 points [-]

As someone who is both into the skeptics movement and the atheist movement i'm not sure what skeptics "wouldn't dare mutter" about.

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Also, i must be ignorant about all these other horrible delusions you are talking about.

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I recommend this post by Quirinus_Quirrell. The list there is by no means comprehensive, but it should give you an idea of what people are talking about.

Edit: Two more good articles to read are this one by Paul Graham, and this post by Vladimir_M.