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NancyLebovitz comments on The Rubber Hand Illusion and Preaching to the Unconverted - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 December 2014 01:49:30PM 4 points [-]

We're not going to learn a thing about the effectiveness of rationality training from people who won't even listen to what we have to say.

Voted up for that.

Tentatively, it might work to teach rational methods of improving one's life in small ways with a gradual spread into more areas rather than starting with the idea of becoming rational about everything. That might attract people who are dubious about rationality (without knowing what it is) and/or don't want sweeping self-improvement.

The gradual and concrete approach might even have some rationality of its own-- it's a sort of informal testing of an idea.

Comment author: Gram_Stone 29 December 2014 01:54:19PM *  2 points [-]

Tentatively, it might work to teach rational methods of improving one's life in small ways with a gradual spread into more areas rather than starting with the idea of becoming rational about everything. That might attract people who are dubious about rationality (without knowing what it is) and/or don't want sweeping self-improvement.

I didn't think of it this way. I agree. (Also, is it considered superfluous in this community to comment only for the sake of agreeing with someone? That's conceivable to me.)

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 December 2014 02:26:56PM 4 points [-]

Thanks, and my feeling about commenting just to agree is that it's okay if it's fairly rare-- something like under 1 in 50 comments (overall, not just your comments) per thread. Otherwise, just upvote.

On the other hand, while I probably have a pretty good sense of what's acceptable here, the question might be worth taking to an open thread.