4hodmt comments on Good movies for rationalists? - Less Wrong

0 Post author: roland 09 November 2013 08:00AM

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Comment author: 4hodmt 09 November 2013 01:44:41PM 6 points [-]

My first thought was detective/courtroom drama type movies, but these are typically Sherlock Holmes style pseudo-rationality, with lessons you can't apply to reality.

In general I don't think movies are good for promoting rationality. The best I can think of are some of the more realistic war movies, eg. Das Boot, Platoon, The Great Escape, which illustrate the "nature doesn't care" idea, where the characters can do everything perfectly and fail anyway because they were in an impossible situation from the start.

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 November 2013 07:14:23PM *  5 points [-]

A lot of detective movies overmatch evidence too much. Detective get away with seeing patterns where there are no real pattern.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 13 November 2013 10:16:07PM 3 points [-]

Or by paying attention to details it is unreasonable to expend effort paying attention to, except in hindsight.