I feel like this should be one of the prime goals of this site. creating some sort of rationalist corpus that can take you from “you are a hominid living on planet three” to interacting with modern society.
if ideologies can have these why can’t the simple truth?
where is the rationalist manifesto?
if ideologies can have these why can’t the simple truth?
Because evolution doesn’t give a damn about rationality, happiness, or fulfillment… and so did not equip our hardware to supply us with any of them in abundance.
(EDIT: …which means that rationality isn’t simple, for humans. Adding this because I’m guessing the downvotes are due to people not getting why what I said is a genuine answer to the question.)
I feel like this should be one of the prime goals of this site. creating some sort of rationalist corpus that can take you from “you are a hominid living on planet three” to interacting with modern society.
if ideologies can have these why can’t the simple truth? where is the rationalist manifesto?
Because evolution doesn’t give a damn about rationality, happiness, or fulfillment… and so did not equip our hardware to supply us with any of them in abundance.
(EDIT: …which means that rationality isn’t simple, for humans. Adding this because I’m guessing the downvotes are due to people not getting why what I said is a genuine answer to the question.)