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Comment author: robot-dreams 09 January 2015 04:44:36PM 0 points [-]

I sometimes wish I could drag various rationalists to my job at the ICU for a while, make them see the kind of teamwork and cooperation that happens in a place where cooperation is a default and a necessity.

Sci-fi plot brewing.

I'd be very interested in a story that goes into detail about the Cyprus experiment (fill an island with all "alphas", instead of the usual "alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon" distribution, and see what happens) from Brave New World.

Better yet, fill an island with all "rationalists" and see what happens.

Comment author: LizzardWizzard 13 January 2015 02:15:53PM *  0 points [-]

I'd be very interested in a story that goes into detail about the Cyprus experiment (fill an island with all "alphas", instead of the usual "alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon" distribution, and see what happens) from Brave New World. Better yet, fill an island with all "rationalists" and see what happens.

2 rationalists must come to agreement if they are truly rational, so they have great chances of survival, whereas "all alphas" will never succeed at dividing their responsibilities and all will end up doing the same thing and die, because they were just born this way, and there are no lower class people to do low-class kind of work, it's to difficult for them to reprogram

Comment author: Lumifer 13 January 2015 03:49:11PM 5 points [-]

2 rationalists must come to agreement if they are truly rational

No, they must not. The "common priors" requirement is not viable practically.

Comment author: LizzardWizzard 14 January 2015 12:51:34PM 0 points [-]

My choice of words was incorrect. i meant "more likely" to agree and to succeed at surviving