gjm comments on Open Thread May 16 - May 22, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 18 May 2016 04:54:39PM -1 points [-]

a rationality-themed tattoo

That's not a rationality-themed tattoo, it's an Intentional-Insights-themed tattoo. So far as I can tell, the only connection between the word "intentional" and rationality is that your organization uses "intentional" to mean roughly what some other people mean by "System 2".

(It's not even as if "use System 2 rather than System 1" is itself a particularly rational, or particularly rationalist, principle. Our brains take the shortcuts they do for reasons, and often we should let them do it.)