MaoShan comments on The problem with too many rational memes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MaoShan 10 February 2012 03:53:55AM 0 points [-]

I don't mean beliefs in a strictly religious sense (I didn't think that's how it's usually used here, either), but your attitude might have changed due to your deeper understanding of human psychology/biology. Then again, I'm not following you around with a notepad. So you think that you haven't learned anything useful from LessWrong?

Comment author: Swimmer963 10 February 2012 04:05:27AM 1 point [-]

I have learned things, and I guess they make it easier in some ways to understand how and why people can be wrong. I have definitely learned a lot of useful things, but I don't find that 'being annoyed by religious people' is a useful thing to have learned.

Comment author: MaoShan 12 February 2012 03:31:39AM 0 points [-]

Which is why I was pointing out that "being annoyed by religious people" is a side-effect of the learning, not a behavior that you purposely adopted. I've had similar struggles myself.

There are probably other social groups that dovetail your goals as well or better than the church, but sad to say, that group meetup you attended is not one of them.