At how low a probability of eventually understanding, say, Bayes’ Rule and the 12 Virtues of Rationality do you consider a girl to have no potential as a future rationalist?
eventually? 100%. Anything less is completely unacceptable.. Anyone should be able to understand those. That’s the entire point of Rationalism, it’s supposed to be accessible to anyone, intelligent people are just faster learners.
The potential to become a rationalist isn’t a matter of being capable to understand, say, the Sequences or the Luminosities or the Feynman Lectures. It’s a matter of wanting to.
If there’s one trend you can tell from this thread, it’s that the Twelve Virtues are mostly an innate and early-nurture thing. The Number One virtue, Curiosity, I know so many people who just don’t have it. A relationship with a person who doesn’t seek the truth, who doesn’t feel the itch to pick at contradictions and fill their intellectual lacunas, or worse, who refuses to question their own prejudice, and who is content with knowing the minimum needed to perform their social function… There’s only so far a relationship with such people can go for me.
Writing this post, I just realized Ace Attorney is remarkably close to what a Rationalist game could be.
At how low a probability of eventually understanding, say, Bayes’ Rule and the 12 Virtues of Rationality do you consider a girl to have no potential as a future rationalist?
eventually? 100%. Anything less is completely unacceptable.. Anyone should be able to understand those. That’s the entire point of Rationalism, it’s supposed to be accessible to anyone, intelligent people are just faster learners.
The potential to become a rationalist isn’t a matter of being capable to understand, say, the Sequences or the Luminosities or the Feynman Lectures. It’s a matter of wanting to.
If there’s one trend you can tell from this thread, it’s that the Twelve Virtues are mostly an innate and early-nurture thing. The Number One virtue, Curiosity, I know so many people who just don’t have it. A relationship with a person who doesn’t seek the truth, who doesn’t feel the itch to pick at contradictions and fill their intellectual lacunas, or worse, who refuses to question their own prejudice, and who is content with knowing the minimum needed to perform their social function… There’s only so far a relationship with such people can go for me.
Writing this post, I just realized Ace Attorney is remarkably close to what a Rationalist game could be.