10. Aristotle says a real philosopher is inhuman.
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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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12. The inclination to choose epistemic rationality is evidence of being bad at life.
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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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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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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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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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Getting better at thinking helps by itself, but this depends on a motivational superstructure that is too much taken for granted.
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Do you have specific ideas what a prorationality motivation structure would look like, or just think we should be thinking about it more?
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Both!
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Anywhere I can go to learn about them?
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I'll try to write something up soon.
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Replying to @willwilkinson @slatestarcodex and
Scott's responses here look both 1) useful and 2) like the kind of habit members of the rationality community try to develop.
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