TheOtherDave comments on How to teach to magical thinkers? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 February 2014 09:21:32PM 2 points [-]

It relates through the not involving the laws of nature part. In a certain sense cultural constructs are not real. They are imaginary. And you can think of all imaginary things as about equally valid.

I am aware of holes in that argument, but getting back to the original point, when people call something a "cultural construct" there is a pretty heavy implication that whatever the replacement for it they have in mind is going to be at least as good and probably better.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 24 February 2014 09:41:55PM 0 points [-]

there is a pretty heavy implication that whatever the replacement for it they have in mind is going to be at least as good and probably better.

Mm. Yeah, I'll accept that.