The epistemic rationality of LessWrong is worth more than the gender ratio we have. A 95% male community that manages to overcome a whole host of problems in instrumental and epistemic rationality is worth more to the world than a 80% male community that is crippled by a blood-feud between a feminist faction and a masculinist faction.
Like the politician said, if I can set the agenda it doesn’t matter how anyone votes.
How about an 80% male community that manages to overcome a whole host of problems in instrumental and epistemic rationality, including the one we are looking straight at?
This is it. Right here, right now. Solve this problem.
Make no mistake: this is not a problem in “instrumental and epistemic rationality”, it is a problem in politics. We simply cannot afford to appeal to some sort of “rational”, god’s-eye-view ideology and lose our real world credibility.
Like the politician said, if I can set the agenda it doesn’t matter how anyone votes.
How about an 80% male community that manages to overcome a whole host of problems in instrumental and epistemic rationality, including the one we are looking straight at?
This is it. Right here, right now. Solve this problem.
Make no mistake: this is not a problem in “instrumental and epistemic rationality”, it is a problem in politics. We simply cannot afford to appeal to some sort of “rational”, god’s-eye-view ideology and lose our real world credibility.
And politics is outside the scope of rationality how?