RichardKennaway comments on LW's image problem: "Rationality" is suspicious - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Bongo 19 July 2011 06:16PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 July 2011 07:06:39PM 8 points [-]

Any opinions about what proportion of people have an automatic "what's the agenda?" filter?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 October 2011 03:08:49AM 0 points [-]

I suspect a lot of people do, but how strong it is varies. I would take a look before, with an eye out for crankish or biased tendencies. Of course by the time I got here I knew this was legit.

A possible way to defuse this would be to add a second tagline that motivates understanding rationality for the purposes of building it. Then the agenda becomes clearer: yes, it really is rationality, in itself, for a specific purpose.