1. Some thoughts on the controversy over the rationality community sparked by @tylercowen's offhand comments to @ezraklein
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Yes, there's lots of theorizing about our irrational chimp minds, but i don't see much about successful sentimental education into reason.
That was mostly my rhetorical flourish. I don't quite identify as part of r. community, tho friends do, & your 7 is not at all true of them
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If anything, it's the reverse: they're far more aware of "cultivating & shaping the arational motives [etc]" than most people I know
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That's good to hear. I think it would be healthy if the emotional engineering of rationality were a more prevalent theme.
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