The MIT Differential Geometer Victor Guillemin told me that his co-author of “Differential Topology” went into psychiatry and had a booming practice treating Harvard/MIT mathematicians. Why? Because logical fairly healthy mathematicians present as crazy to typical psychiatrists.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/1176444044538515456 …
Also true for Effective Altruists: utilitarian moral rationality strikes most normies as insane and morally repugnant.
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Oh please you two. She's not addressing feelings, plain and simple. Her therapist is challenging her use of defense mechanisms like rationalizing/intellectualizing. You can be as rational as you want and also focus your therapy dialogue on emotional states.
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Maybe. But most therapists have no idea how to do therapy with a person who takes their rationality seriously.
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This is Kanazawa's hypothesis right? That all evolutionarily abnormal things correlate with IQ (because IQ is the ability to evaluate evolutionarily novel situations).
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To be fair... don't most F up either the utilitarian part, or the altruistic part? Often both. So... that's exactly what I'd expect lol.
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Moral psychology research shows normies don't come anywhere close to maximizing utility; they're mostly intuitive, flagrantly inconsistent deontologists.
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