The world is almost entirely controlled by hierarchical organizations ( corporates and governments). Hiercharchal organizations have “won” to a greater extent than pretty much anything else on earth. It’s a model with flaws, but it clearly works. A person would need a whole lot of willful blindness to argue with those results.
Now as to the question of if those organizations would be good at teaching rationality, that’s another question...
Yeah, I can see how hierarchical organisations benefit certain goals and activities. I was speaking specifically about the goal of teaching rationality, in case that wasn’t clear from context. You don’t need a central authority to control what is being taught so much unless you are teaching irrationality (c.f. Scientology, Roman Catholicism or any political organisation).
You could probably run a million rationality courses a year using just a wiki and a smartphone app. (Left as an exercise for the reader)
The world is almost entirely controlled by hierarchical organizations ( corporates and governments). Hiercharchal organizations have “won” to a greater extent than pretty much anything else on earth. It’s a model with flaws, but it clearly works. A person would need a whole lot of willful blindness to argue with those results.
Now as to the question of if those organizations would be good at teaching rationality, that’s another question...
Yeah, I can see how hierarchical organisations benefit certain goals and activities. I was speaking specifically about the goal of teaching rationality, in case that wasn’t clear from context. You don’t need a central authority to control what is being taught so much unless you are teaching irrationality (c.f. Scientology, Roman Catholicism or any political organisation).
You could probably run a million rationality courses a year using just a wiki and a smartphone app. (Left as an exercise for the reader)