... "... [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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... "Why are people so bad at reasoning? For the same reason they’re so bad at letting poisonous spiders walk all over their face without freaking out."
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I kind of wonder how the term "rationalist" for the internet rationalist came to be because the LessWrong Rationalist is not really a rationalist in the Kantian or Descartes sense. Many are empiricists... My hunch is because it sounds more serious and sincere...
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i started calling them neorationalists before i was aware they were generally called rationalists... i think a lot don't really understand the distinction between rationalism and empiricism, and tend towards whichever is most convenient for rationalizing their beliefs
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