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Dorikka comments on Rationality Activism: Open Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: atucker 04 March 2011 02:06AM

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Comment author: Dorikka 04 March 2011 03:49:17AM 1 point [-]

I'm thinking that creating activist elites would bring in many more resources to be used for further activism than would creating activists out of the less wealthy, and that those usually classified as elites usually make more significant decisions than non-elites (as a result, creating rationality in elites would have more of an impact than doing so in the same number of non-elites.)

Comment author: atucker 04 March 2011 05:29:19AM 1 point [-]

I'd believe that.

Though, I feel like it would be easier to convince non-elites that they need to be more rational.