Viliam_Bur comments on How to illustrate that society is mostly irrational, and how rationality would be beneficial - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 18 February 2014 01:24:12PM *  1 point [-]

Actually those people are probably right when they charge that pushing rationality often goes hand in hand with pushing an ideology.

And ever worse, people pushing "rationality" often aren't actually pushing rationality (defined as: making maps that better correspond to territory).

If a random person came and tried to teach (their definition of) rationality at schools, in absence of more specific information, I would probably be afraid.

Comment author: ChristianKl 18 February 2014 03:23:57PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, a lot of those people don't think in terms of maps.

As far the definition goes I'm even more radical and would say: "Making maps that allow you to better navigate the territory."