STTNG is basically the closest we’ve ever come to a TV series about rationality
Look, I enjoy The Next Generation too, but I think you may be suffering from a pony effect. Rationality is great, and Star Trek is great, but that doesn’t mean the two have anything to do with each other.
He didn’t actually make a comment about which series was closer to a Lesswrong perspective on rationality. You may be inclined to put an equal sign between “best reflecting the rationalist agenda” and “better series,” but that is a question of taste.
Leaving aside questions of how sensible STTNG is when gold-pressed latinum circulates along side replicators that appear to produce things costlessly, etc., etc.
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Look, I enjoy The Next Generation too, but I think you may be suffering from a pony effect. Rationality is great, and Star Trek is great, but that doesn’t mean the two have anything to do with each other.
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He didn’t actually make a comment about which series was closer to a Lesswrong perspective on rationality. You may be inclined to put an equal sign between “best reflecting the rationalist agenda” and “better series,” but that is a question of taste.
Leaving aside questions of how sensible STTNG is when gold-pressed latinum circulates along side replicators that appear to produce things costlessly, etc., etc.
Also, this sort of critique...