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MrMind comments on has anyone actually gotten smarter, in the past few years, by studying rationality? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MrMind 30 December 2015 09:06:16AM *  3 points [-]

I think an often overlooked part of rationality is the wasted time and effort that LWers avoid put into irrelevant things: debating words' meaning, theology, blue/green affiliations, and so on. Not because of faith, but because all these have been dealt with.
True, it's not said that the resulting time/energy (action?) is put into more productive things, but it could be.