Kawoomba comments on [link] The surprising downsides of being clever - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kawoomba 20 April 2015 11:20:37PM 1 point [-]

Teaching happiness can be -- and often is -- at odds with teaching epistemic rationality.

Comment author: ChristianKl 22 April 2015 04:58:41PM 0 points [-]

It can also help with epistemic rationality if you teach people to identify distorted thinking via the CBT framework as layed out in David Burns "The Feeling Good Handbook".

Effectively dealing with one's own emotions helps with clear thinking.

On the other hand when you try to get school teacher to do something right it's quite possible that they mess up and at the end you have less epistemic rationality.