MichaelVassar comments on The Benefits of Rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 31 March 2009 05:06:38PM 4 points [-]

And only rational means like practice, care to figure out what is working, looking at and beneath the surface features of what other successful people are doing, etc are going to improve real traits like charisma, physical appearance, etc.

Comment author: AlexU 01 April 2009 02:14:00AM 0 points [-]

Yes, but these are things most reasonably intelligent people know, or figure out, anyway. It seems correct to chalk up these insights to rationality, but trivially so. I don't see what extra work studying rationality per se would be doing for us here.