1. Some thoughts on the controversy over the rationality community sparked by @tylercowen's offhand comments to @ezraklein
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6. Hume is right. Good things, like reason, come from co-opting and reshaping base motives. Reason's enslaved to the impulse that drives it.
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7. I see almost no interest among rationality folks in cultivating and shaping the arational motives behind rational cognition.
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8. Bayes' Law is much less important than understanding what would get somebody to ever care about applying Bayes' Law.
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9. If the reason people don't is that it would destabilize their identity and relationships, maybe it's not so great to be right.
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10. Aristotle says a real philosopher is inhuman.
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11. If the normal syndrome of epistemic irrationality is instrumentally rational, then you've got to choose your irrationality.
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12. The inclination to choose epistemic rationality is evidence of being bad at life.
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13. It's understandable that these people should want a community in which they can feel better and maybe even superior about this.
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14. We all need a home. If that desire for safety/acceptance/status produces more usefully true thoughts, that's awesome.
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Great tweetstorm although I'd add proviso that rationalist might benefit from "home" with people unlike themselves (as we all would).
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