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NancyLebovitz comments on A few questions on International Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 May 2012 01:11:31AM 13 points [-]

It was a commonality between rationality as a project and religiosity. I was intending a very weak form of "could explain".

What I actually believe is that Americans have a default of "doing something". Thinking about whether the something makes sense is permitted but optional.