gjm comments on Rational to distrust your own rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 29 October 2011 02:02:10AM 6 points [-]

This post really is about whether it is rational (not "good", "nice", "approved-of", etc.) to mistrust one's own rationality (not "correctness", "omniscience", "good taste", "general awesomeness", etc.).

I think you are taking your campaign against overuse of "rational" and its cognates too far.

Comment author: lessdazed 29 October 2011 04:15:18AM 1 point [-]

I think you are taking your campaign against overuse of "rational" and its cognates too far.

This is not unlikely.

Comment author: gjm 29 October 2011 10:07:22AM 1 point [-]

I beg your pardon; I should have said "irrationally far" :-).