Comment on Son of Shit Rationalists Say

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:36:36 GMT

No. The approach to understanding human psychology, though, tends to be broader—because post-rationalists draw on old cultural wisdom, and also because some of them read people like Freud who are often considered useless by x-rationalists. More of an emphasis is also placed on neurochemistry and nutrition. Both kinds of rationalists study neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, &c.

What snazzy label do I get if I:

draw on old cultural wisdom (selectively, depending on to what degree the cultural knowledge is relevant and often after passing it through a "social speak -> literal map" filter).

Dismiss people like Freud out of hand because there are other books to read that can be expected to be far more reliable and less annoying.

Place an excessive amount of emphasis on neurochemistry and nutrition

Don't believe any whacked out shit like that there are gods and soforth.

To be honest I had assumed "post-rationalists" had to do something rather distinctly irrational (or take an arational interest to the extreme) before they qualified for the title.

(ETA: Downvoter, fuck you, I'm going out of my way to answer a question.

One of the most obnoxious voting behaviors out there. I honestly prefer a systematic down-voters downvoting the first three pages of the user-comment thread than to downvotes when I'm going out of the way to answer a question for someone else.

'Course, now that this is here further downvotes are justified and won't be responded to with "fuck you"s, don't worry.

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