Viliam_Bur comments on Some potential dangers of rationality training - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 22 January 2012 03:47:35PM 6 points [-]

If someone believes in X, they will like the general argument: "If X causes a problem, the solution is to use more X." But can it be somehow proved, for X = rationality?

Perhaps this is all just one big sunk cost fallacy. Some of us have already invested too much resources into learning rationality -- whether so called traditional rationality, x-rationality, or whatever is your popular flavor. Maybe we just refuse to update...