Ozymandias_King comments on A social norm against unjustified opinions? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ozymandias_King 31 May 2009 12:59:32PM 0 points [-]

I agree that the end result would be valuable, but I think that changing norms for a whole society would be very hard.

Although it might still be easier than the converse of raising the rationality of a whole society: being informed has higher status in society than being rational. It is more related to being a professor, journalist or talking head, whereas rationality is more associated to being a nerd, scientist or economist.