Awesome. I really like this position; it feels right. It was too stingy of me to say that all rationalism buys is a chance to conform, and it’s too optimistic of certain LW cheerleaders to claim that rationality will promptly sweep the world or grant us superpowers. Your comment nails the middle path between these two extremes. :-)
Awesome. I really like this position; it feels right. It was too stingy of me to say that all rationalism buys is a chance to conform, and it’s too optimistic of certain LW cheerleaders to claim that rationality will promptly sweep the world or grant us superpowers. Your comment nails the middle path between these two extremes. :-)
Are you deliberately trying to invoke our Deep Wisdom alarms with an incredibly blatant golden mean fallacy?
[Grin] Guilty as charged. That said, I do really like SarahC’s position.