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OrphanWilde comments on Group Rationality Diary, April 5-14 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 05 April 2013 06:50:19PM 4 points [-]

Rationality isn't an innate property you're born with, but it does -depend- upon innate properties you're born with. If the meme is successful, which is precisely the goal we have in raising the sanity waterline, and is deleterious to those genes which enable it, it is doomed to destroy itself.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 06 April 2013 05:14:47AM 5 points [-]

Not necessarily. There have been celibate monks for a long time.

Comment author: Dorikka 06 April 2013 08:57:41PM 0 points [-]

if the meme is successful, which is precisely the goal we have in raising the sanity waterline, and is deleterious to those genes which enable it, it is doomed to destroy itself.

On a significant time scale?