The scary thing is that most full-on Nazis really liked being Nazis, that Nazism was incredibly successful and failed mostly due to bad epistemology of upper management, and most Nazis only decided that they did not want to be Nazis any more when being massively disincentivized.
No, some people are very good at being rational, and other people are very good at accepting programming, and while there is some commutation between the groups, they seem to be quite distinct.
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You said in one of your CCC talks that our brain states evolve in landscapes where we might find ourselves in different valleys. Rationality also is not a well defined concept. Real people are not utility-maximizing agents, and couldn't agree on a utility function if they were.
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Rationality does by itself not imply values, other than a pragmatically justified commitment to truth for the process itself. But once we make our preferences explicit, we can use rationality to negotiate.
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