Tetronian comments on Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 17 January 2012 11:02AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 January 2012 05:09:29PM 3 points [-]

Kevin is correct, but there may also be an element of "What good is rationality?" fatigue involved. This discussion has gone on for quite a while but it's mostly been dominated by applause light-ish anecdotes rather than deep theories. I suspect people are tiring of this kind of post, which would explain why your post has fewer upvotes than previous ones on the same topic.

Comment author: lukeprog 17 January 2012 05:36:54PM 1 point [-]

That may also be the case. In my case, I used my personal reflections on the value of rationality as a first step in working towards a deep theory of why rationality helps sometimes and not others, so that I might take a crack at the hard problem of how to create superheroes.