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Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. The little man has no way to judge and the shoddy lies are packaged more attractively. There is no way to offer color to a colorblind man, nor is there any way for us to give the man of imperfect brain the canny skill to distinguish a lie from a truth.
-- Robert A Heinlein. Assignment in Eternity, Loc 939 (Kindle edition)
I guess we'll just have to rely on all those people with perfect brains, then.
I can predict with great confidence that those people will not make any mistakes.
(They will not do anything else, either.)
It turns out that a lot of color blind people can see their difficult colors a little bit, and technological aid helps.
http://wearecolorblind.com/article/oxy-iso-glasses-review/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-eyewear-could-help-people-with-red-green-color-blindness/
They don't seem to help (most?) people as much of the more enthusiastic early reviews said, but aren't totally useless, either.
So it helps them to be less wrong, as it were.
You're right. I've corrected it. Thank you
Oops. That was a reply to a PM about a typo.
There is no point to this "rationality" project anymore, everybody can go home.
Project? Which project?
Improving epistemic rationality, at least. Better thinking through understanding our mind's flaws. I don't think anyone here has a "perfect brain". Maybe it's possible to improve instrumental rationality while having no way to distinguish lies from truth, but it would probably be a random walk.
Which story is that? I'm betting on "Gulf".
And you would be correct.