RobinHanson comments on Incremental Progress and the Valley - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinHanson 05 April 2009 03:34:06AM 12 points [-]

When there is a conventional wisdom it usually pays for most people to become more rational just so they can better anticipate, assimilate, remember and use that conventional wisdom. But once your rationality becomes so strong that it leads you to often reject conventional wisdom, then you face a tougher tradeoff; there can be serious social costs from rejecting conventional wisdom.