Comment on Why CFAR's Mission?

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:24:53 GMT

Being rational means many things, but surely one of them is making decisions based on some kind of reasoning process as opposed to recourse to emotions.

No. CFAR rationality is about aligning system I and system II. It's not about declaring system I outputs to be worthy of being ignored in favor of system II outputs.

You might, for example, have very strong emotions about matters pertaining to fights between your perceived in-group and out-group, but you try to put those aside and make judgments based on some sort of fundamental principles.

The alternative is working towards feeling more strongly for the fundamental principles than caring about the fights.

emotions are not easy to fake and humans have strong intuitions about whether someone's expressed feelings are genuine.

A person who cares strongly for his cause doesn't need to fake emotions.

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