I want to see less of people trying to maximize their own comfort at the expense of others
I upvoted brazil84′s comment because I want to see more of such things. To take an extreme example, if Genghis Khan used rationality tricks, I want to know them. A while ago, in a discussion of Schelling’s book, we had this exchange:
ajayjetti: so rationality doesn’t always mean “win-win”?
cousin_it: Neither actual human rationality nor its best available game-theoretic formalizations (today) necessarily lead to win-win.
Technologos: Indeed, the difference between Winning and “win-win” is important. Rationality wouldn’t be much of a martial art if we limited the acceptable results to those in which all parties win.
Imagine that someday brazil84 finds a way to make rationality training 200% more effective, but it only works in gender-segregated groups. (That was, after all, his stated rationale: to make his own training more effective.) Will you reconsider then? Are you so absolutely sure this is impossible that cutting the discussion short with an Alicorn-style “I don’t like what you just said” is the best response?
I upvoted brazil84′s comment because I want to see more of such things. To take an extreme example, if Genghis Khan used rationality tricks, I want to know them. A while ago, in a discussion of Schelling’s book, we had this exchange:
Imagine that someday brazil84 finds a way to make rationality training 200% more effective, but it only works in gender-segregated groups. (That was, after all, his stated rationale: to make his own training more effective.) Will you reconsider then? Are you so absolutely sure this is impossible that cutting the discussion short with an Alicorn-style “I don’t like what you just said” is the best response?