"Rationalists always wonder: how come people aren’t more rational? How come you can prove a thousand times, using Facts and Logic, that something is stupid, and yet people will still keep doing it? ..." ...
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... "... [Joseph] Henrich hints at an answer: for basically all of history, using reason would get you killed." https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/ …
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... "In giving humans reason at all, evolution took a huge risk. ... it was left with this ticking time-bomb, this ape that was constantly going to be able to convince itself of hare-brained and probably-fatal ideas."
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"Henrich ties this in to various studies showing that black students learn best from a black teacher, female students from a female teacher, et cetera." Oh snap, a competing vague counter to HBD alongside "epigenetics".
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