VAuroch comments on Rationality Quotes August 2014 - Less Wrong

8 Post author: RolfAndreassen 04 August 2014 03:12AM

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Comment author: VAuroch 04 August 2014 09:02:43PM 0 points [-]

Fail to see the relevance.

Comment author: Torello 04 August 2014 09:19:53PM -1 points [-]

I've always considered materialism to be intertwined with rationality.

Comment author: Benito 04 August 2014 10:00:27PM 3 points [-]

Er, I always thought we were celebrating good cognitive algorithms here, not individual belief tokens.

Comment author: VAuroch 05 August 2014 01:46:17AM 1 point [-]

It does tend to be a belief that follows from increased rationality, but snarky remarks about it (while amusing) aren't particularly productive towards improving rationality.