Jesus!* Your post provokes an emotional reaction in me, which I will now try to translate into something sensible.
I am irrational, trying to become less so. I've got a way to go. Also, I think I am less intelligent than much of the Less Wrong community. I'm sorry to say I don't expect this to change soon.
It's a continuum, not a discrete or binary division. There are people smarter and there are people more rational than you (for pretty much anybody who will read this.) So how can they accept you?
One of the things that drew me to Eliezer Yudkowsky's writings and to Less Wrong was the profound moral component. As I understand it, his mission isn't just for you smart folks, it's for everyone, including those of us who may be deluded and irrational and of merely normal intelligence, or below-normal intelligence. For example, it wasn't that long ago that he commented that cryonics (for example) should be for " all human beings and, just in case, chimpanzees ." I could think of other examples of what I take to be the moral dimension of this forum. I think it's fundamental to this forum.
* I don't actually believe in Jesus. Just a way of signifying an emotional reaction.
Ah yes, well, I do have some moral values - I'm still very much against actions that hurt sentient beings, and I do believe that it is better off for society if everyone has some basic living standards (in fact, I think that society imposes far too many artificial barriers to let people experience "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" - and then society uses "morality" as a way to justify this denial - it's sort of like Puritanism). And I'm almost a vegan, for that matter. I just happen to have the morals that others tend to tak...
I don't think that it's possible to convince most people to be more rational. It usually causes more problems than it's worth. And as a result, I often have to make white lies or pretend to believe in things I don't believe in, even though those things kill me inside.
And the truth is, that the most rational decisions you can make for yourself are decisions that take the irrational feelings of others in account (and the immalleability of them). It's hard to empathize with the irrational feelings of others. But there may be creative ways to trick myself into accepting them.
For example, I think that "overmoralization" is one of the major sources of social irrationality. For example, people are willing to take drastic actions (to irrational extents) to punish victimless crimes like marijuana smoking. The "make-work" bias documented in Bryan Caplan's "The Myth of the Rational Voter" is another irrational bias that comes from "overmoralization" (certainly there are good reasons to stigmatize unemployment on a societal level, but the level that it takes is often irrational). And as someone with both Asperger's and Attention Deficit Disorder (both cases far more severe than the cases of anyone else I know), I've often had to take extremely untraditional approaches in order to learn as well as I can (or in other words, there are certain rules and norms that I *will* break), even though many people find these untraditional approaches to be morally jarring (which comes from the "overmoralization" of fairness and respect for the rules). Furthermore, some people do act like altruistic punishers even when it isn't in their best interest to do so (since it can alienate them from others) - breaking a friendship because you disapprove of someone's victimless action is sort of like "altruistic punishment", although it may not be actually altruistic if the person's values against that victimless action really are so fundamental to himself/herself.
Of course, I can hide potentially objectionable things that I do from others. And I do try to think of ways in which I could be more normal (and creative ways to reframe social norms in a system that's more acceptable than me), and I've managed to talk myself out of using Asperger's as an excuse. But hiding things makes me emotionally distant from just about everyone, and I'd like to hear suggestions on what to do, or maybe on how to accept people even when they're irrational like that. And of course, I understand that enforcing the rules (in a way that people *perceive* as consistent) is often necessary for maintaining some stable system that people are inclined to trust (even though enforcing the rules often results in substantial costs in *some* individual cases).
EDIT: In no means do I "disbelieve" in morality. Rather, I just have a strong aversion towards the word because others have abused the word beyond recognition. I'm a near-vegan who just hates it how society uses Puritan-like moral justifications to prevent others from having the freedom to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.