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Irrationality Game
I believe that exposure to rationality (in the LW sense) at today's state does in general more harm than good^ to someone who's already a skeptic. 80%
^ In the sense of generating less happiness and in general less "winning".
I realized I didn't have a model of an average skeptic, so I am not sure what my opinion on this topic actually is.
My provisional model of an average skeptic is like this: "You guys as LW have a good point about religion being irrational; the math is kind of interesting, but boring; and the ideas about superhuman intelligence and quantum physics being more than just equations are completely crazy."
No harm, no benefit, tomorrow everything is forgotten.
I predict with about 60% probability that exposure to LW rationality benefits skeptics more and is also more likely to harm non-skeptics.
I roughly agree with this one. This is something that we would not see much evidence of, if true.
Downvoted.
Could you provide support? Have you seen http://lesswrong.com/lw/7s4/poll_results_lw_probably_doesnt_cause_akrasia/, by the way?