“How many highly rational people do you suppose there are in the world? How many of them do you suspect are risk-seeking enough to aim for the type of swing-for-the-fences success that would make them notable?”
Precisely half of the human population has above average rationality. What’s notable about people like the Nazis is not that they weren’t x-rationalists, it’s that they were well below average.
“How many highly rational people do you suppose there are in the world? How many of them do you suspect are risk-seeking enough to aim for the type of swing-for-the-fences success that would make them notable?”
Precisely half of the human population has above average rationality. What’s notable about people like the Nazis is not that they weren’t x-rationalists, it’s that they were well below average.