Kawoomba comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2013 06:57:45AM 3 points [-]

I have read some of the sequences and such but - I guess I'm a rationalist at heart already, maybe because I've studied lots of logic and such, but a lot of it of the basic stuff seemed pretty apparent to me. I was already up to speed on Bayes and quantum mechanics, for example, and never considered anything other an atheism. And I already optimize and try to look at life in terms of expected payoffs and other very rational things like that. But, it's possible I've missed a lot of the material here - I find navigating the site to be pretty unintuitive.

Be very careful thinking you are done. I was in pretty much exactly the same position as you about a year ago. ("yep, I'm pretty rational. Lol @ god; I wonder what it's like to have delusional beliefs"). After a year and a half here, having read pretty much everything in the sequences and most of the other archives, running a meetup, etc, I now know that I suck at rationality. You will find that you are nowhere near the limits, or even the middle, of possible human rationality.

Further, I now know what it's like to have delusional beliefs that are so ingrained you don't even recognize them as beliefs, because I had some big ones. I probably have more. There not easy to spot from the inside.

On the subject of atheism... I used to be an atheist, too. The rabbit hole you've fallen into here is deep.

The Seattle guys are pretty cool, from those I've met. Go hang out with them.

Comment author: Kawoomba 02 February 2013 07:32:11AM 5 points [-]

On the subject of atheism... I used to be an atheist, too. The rabbit hole you've fallen into here is deep.

Don't be mysterious, Morpheus, please elaborate.