Normal_Anomaly comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong
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Re your 1st paragraph: you have a much higher opinion of human rationality than myself. I hope you're right, but I doubt it.
Re your second paragraph: I am currently watching Kino's Journey, and will respond later. Thanks for the reference, it sounds interesting.
Human rationality can be trained and improved, it's not an innate feature. To do that is part of the entire point of this site.
I hope you enjoy it. It is very interesting. Beware of generalizing from fictional evidence... but fiction is sometimes all we have to explore certain hypotheticals...
True. Individual budget allocation would be a bad idea in present day America, but it wouldn't be a bad idea everywhere and for all time.