Multiheaded comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Multiheaded 13 June 2012 10:38:13AM *  0 points [-]

The first glance, as usual, reveals interesting things about one's perception:

Moldbuggery: Bias is bad, real fucking bad. The current systems don't encourage rationality all that much either. Only a cognitive elite can ever become debased enough to run things

That's honestly how I read it at first. Ha.

BTW Konkvistador belongs in better company (nothing against the others); I've come to admire him a little bit and think he's much wiser than other fans of Moldbug.

Oh, and speaking of good company... "pure cynicism about how things are combined with an idealism of how to act" - that sounds like the ethics that Philip K. Dick tenatively proposes in his Exegesis; shit's fucked, blind semi-conscious evil rules the world, but there's a Super-Value to being kind and human even in the face of Armageddon.

Comment author: Karmakaiser 13 June 2012 12:55:35PM 2 points [-]

I asked Konkvistador if he endorsed the Moldbuggery statement in IRC and he liked it. But I think I want to decontextualize the attitudes toward bias and debiasing So I can better fit different authors/posters together. :/

I've come up with /fatalism/pessimism/elitism/rational schizophrenia/optimism . With that breakdown I can put Konvistador in the same category with Plato. I love the name rational schizophrenia too much to give it up.

Comment author: Multiheaded 13 June 2012 12:56:53PM 0 points [-]

I love the name rational schizophrenia too much to give it up.

I liked it too, thanks! :)

Comment author: [deleted] 03 January 2013 07:29:09AM 1 point [-]

he's much wiser than other fans of Moldbug.

Seconded.