michael_nielsen

1. Some thoughts on the controversy over the rationality community sparked by @tylercowen's offhand comments to @ezraklein

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.

7. I see almost no interest among rationality folks in cultivating and shaping the arational motives behind rational cognition.

There is a great deal of interest about this amongst those I know. They're very aware we're slightly evolved East African Plains Apes...

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

If anything, it's the reverse: they're far more aware of "cultivating & shaping the arational motives [etc]" than most people I know