The last, long one is basically saying shut up and multiply. Going with your gut intuitions might make you feel better about your decisions, but it won't really get you a better outcome. In your own life, if you want to pay a premium for that feeling of (unjustified) confidence that's one thing, but when other people's lives are at stake you have to be cold about it if you want to do what's really right.
The second and third are about how rationality for its own sake is futile. Rationality is good because it makes you better at what really matters. Your goa... (read more)
These quotes seem to have little to do with rationality. What's the connection?
The last, long one is basically saying shut up and multiply. Going with your gut intuitions might make you feel better about your decisions, but it won't really get you a better outcome. In your own life, if you want to pay a premium for that feeling of (unjustified) confidence that's one thing, but when other people's lives are at stake you have to be cold about it if you want to do what's really right.
The second and third are about how rationality for its own sake is futile. Rationality is good because it makes you better at what really matters. Your goa... (read more)