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Scott Alexander

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I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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    1. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 5 Apr 2017
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      7. I see almost no interest among rationality folks in cultivating and shaping the arational motives behind rational cognition.

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    2. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 5 Apr 2017
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      8. Bayes' Law is much less important than understanding what would get somebody to ever care about applying Bayes' Law.

      4 replies 11 retweets 52 likes
    3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 5 Apr 2017
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      9. If the reason people don't is that it would destabilize their identity and relationships, maybe it's not so great to be right.

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    4. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 5 Apr 2017
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      10. Aristotle says a real philosopher is inhuman.

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    5. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 5 Apr 2017
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      11. If the normal syndrome of epistemic irrationality is instrumentally rational, then you've got to choose your irrationality.

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    6. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 5 Apr 2017
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      12. The inclination to choose epistemic rationality is evidence of being bad at life.

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    7. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 5 Apr 2017
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      13. It's understandable that these people should want a community in which they can feel better and maybe even superior about this.

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    8. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 5 Apr 2017
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      14. We all need a home. If that desire for safety/acceptance/status produces more usefully true thoughts, that's awesome.

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    9. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 6 Apr 2017
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      I'm not sure if you're pointing out that being in a community that values truth promotes truth-seeking, or missing this.

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    10. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 6 Apr 2017
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      Replying to @slatestarcodex @willwilkinson and

      Like, you seem to say that it "produces more usefully true thoughts", but also say you "see no interest" in exploring ways to change motives

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      Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 6 Apr 2017
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      Replying to @slatestarcodex @willwilkinson and

      ...as if the whole project of constructing a community with relevant norms wasn't one big attempt at that.

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        2. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 6 Apr 2017
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          A place where you will be savagely yelled at for making a misleading graph, and attractive people want to date you because (continued)

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        3. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 6 Apr 2017
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          you are so good at admitting when you are wrong is a place where those "base motives" are more likely to be working in your favor.

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        2. Sam‏ @sflicht 6 Apr 2017
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          i dont think that's the point of the "rationality community". the actual point: people interested in the same sort of stuff like to hang out

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        3. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 6 Apr 2017
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          That is definitely involved, but original purpose was truth-seeking environment. Seehttp://lesswrong.com/lw/cz/the_craft_and_the_community/ …

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        1. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 7 Apr 2017
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          Yes. I totally agree with this. The question is whether the community is really promoting the relevant norms.

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