Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes July 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 09 July 2012 02:51:22AM 2 points [-]

Is this true of atheistic humanists? Of transhumanists? Could you devise an experiment to test whether it was so, would you bet on the results of that experiment? Will they say the same of LessWrongers, someday? And if so, what's the point?

Now that I think on it, though, there might be a case for scientists being drawn from a different distribution, or computer programmers, or for that matter science fiction fans (are those all the same distributions as each other, I wonder?).

If LW-rationality goes mainstream, it's followers will then be drawn from the same distribution.

Comment author: faul_sname 03 August 2012 05:56:33PM 0 points [-]

If LW-rationality goes mainstream, it's followers will then be drawn from the same distribution.

I find it unlikely that we'll have to opportunity to observe this.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 August 2012 07:04:29PM 1 point [-]

I think it's plausible that LW-rationality, or rather a third hand version of it, will go mainstream.