1. Some thoughts on the controversy over the rationality community sparked by @tylercowen's offhand comments to @ezraklein
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8. Bayes' Law is much less important than understanding what would get somebody to ever care about applying Bayes' Law.
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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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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Great tweetstorm although I'd add proviso that rationalist might benefit from "home" with people unlike themselves (as we all would).
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Thanks! Agreed.
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I think it's a core value. I feel in every cell that Understanding > relationships.
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Some identities and relationships are poisonous.
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This isn't a big "what if" you're pondering. We need only look at history to see the consequences of people putting a low stock on reason.
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As far as what makes people value rationality, I think in reality the door is never fully shut for most people, so to speak.
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You get people to value rationality by appealing to their inherent rationality.
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Maybe those identities, etc., are garbage and ought to be destabilized? Hume was moralizing against religion by advocating for empiricism.
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Just read Kant and being right is it's own reward. Or follow dailystoic on twitter.
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Not clear that's true at all, and perhaps folks' current identities and relationships could use some destabilizing.
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