For a long time I thought ppl were saying dumb things about rationality, until I realized they were using a different definition of rationality from me. I think their definition is something like "If social consensus is that an idea is unpromising, then that idea is irrational"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090608908534800384 …
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Replying to @juliagalef
Not so much that the consensus is x, but that an intelligent, unbiased (or if you prefer, nonspecialist) person would conclude x.
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Yeah, that does seem closer to the definition people are using. But it still means that people who are correctly perceiving something that most other intelligent people can't perceive get classified as irrational.
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The way you distinguish is by whether the person with the "crazy" idea seems otherwise smart and reasonable. People may not be able to tell that about themselves, but a third party like YC can tell.
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