nykos comments on A Marriage Ceremony for Aspiring Rationalists - Less Wrong

38 Post author: lukeprog 23 July 2012 07:33PM

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 24 July 2012 03:06:43AM 12 points [-]

It's quicker to recruit existing people and turn them into rationalists than to create new people from scratch. This approach will eventually exhaust the gene pool, but not for hundreds of generations.

Comment author: nykos 30 July 2012 05:24:53PM 1 point [-]

Good luck explaining Bayes' law to people with IQs below 90.