I hate to burst the feel-good bubble of #5, but have you noticed that would just put the burden of lying right back onto the newly rational brownshirts? Unless that is you were such a capable rationalist teacher that you could train them to teach, on a few hours notice—and set lose a recursion that would obliterate the Nazi ideology in days, leaving the rest of the world caught between relief and awe, and wondering if such a pointedly infectious idea ought to be quarantined.
No criticism implied. I’m just having fun with a counterfactual. The feel good bubble was mine as much as anybody’s. “Wouldn’t it be nice—oh wait, but ten they’d need to … and they’d end up having to convert Hitler …”. Heh. And now I’m wondering what a nation of sudden rationalists would do with a Nazi war machine if they had one—dismantle it? Or fight someone? (Sorry, I know I’m hijacking a bit. Threaded replies should defend the main discussion, anyhow.)
I hate to burst the feel-good bubble of #5, but have you noticed that would just put the burden of lying right back onto the newly rational brownshirts? Unless that is you were such a capable rationalist teacher that you could train them to teach, on a few hours notice—and set lose a recursion that would obliterate the Nazi ideology in days, leaving the rest of the world caught between relief and awe, and wondering if such a pointedly infectious idea ought to be quarantined.
There was no feel-good bubble—I listed 5 as being the obviously impossible extreme of “promote maximally accurate beliefs”
No criticism implied. I’m just having fun with a counterfactual. The feel good bubble was mine as much as anybody’s. “Wouldn’t it be nice—oh wait, but ten they’d need to … and they’d end up having to convert Hitler …”. Heh. And now I’m wondering what a nation of sudden rationalists would do with a Nazi war machine if they had one—dismantle it? Or fight someone? (Sorry, I know I’m hijacking a bit. Threaded replies should defend the main discussion, anyhow.)