ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: arundelo 05 February 2013 10:20PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Tags: quotes

Comments (563)

Sort By: Best

Show:

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: aleksiL 03 February 2013 02:16:21PM 1 point [-]

How would this encourage them to actually value logic and evidence instead of just appearing to do so?

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 February 2013 10:00:31PM 2 points [-]

It's not a question of encouragement. Humans tends to want to be like the high status folk that they look up to.

Comment author: aleksiL 04 February 2013 10:51:44AM 1 point [-]

Want to be like or appear to be like? I'm not convinced people can be relied on to make the distinction, much less choose the "correct" one.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 February 2013 01:43:54PM 4 points [-]

Want to be like or appear to be like?

Or do they want to be like those folks appear to be like?