byrnema comments on Chomsky on reason and science - Less Wrong

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Comment author: byrnema 18 April 2009 03:12:51AM *  0 points [-]

<long paragraph of DHMO-like attributions about X>

Neverthless, while DHMO can't logically be blamed for causing P, Q, and R perhaps the argument persists that DHMO is clearly not saving us from P, Q and R.

Perhaps we haven't been applying rationality, science, logic perfectly well, and that is why they're not solving our problems. But the Western world has gone at great lengths to embrace them -- if they have not been executed perfectly perhaps they are too demanding? In any case, the fact is that they are not saving us from P, Q and R.

We do require new tools, not just better, ever more perfect execution of the old ones.

(Biases and conflicts of interest: As I make this argument, the devil is standing at the door, giving me the creeps. My religion: science et al.)