MinibearRex

[SEQ RERUN] Whin­ing-Based Communities

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­ten­u­at­ing Circumstances

[SEQ RERUN] Real-Life An­thropic Weirdness

[SEQ RERUN] In­cre­men­tal Progress and the Valley

[SEQ RERUN] Ra­tion­al­ity is Sys­tem­atized Winning

[SEQ RERUN] Select­ing Ra­tion­al­ist Groups

[SEQ RERUN] Pur­chase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

[SEQ RERUN] Hel­pless Individuals

[SEQ RERUN] Ra­tion­al­ity: Com­mon In­ter­est of Many Causes

[SEQ RERUN] Church vs. Taskforce

[SEQ RERUN] Can Hu­man­ism Match Reli­gion’s Out­put?

• MinibearRexApr 4, 2013, 5:37 AM

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  in reply to: buybuydandavis’s comment on: [SEQ RERUN] Your Price for Joining

  I don’t think EY actually suggests that people are doing those calculations. He’s saying that we’re just executing an adaptation that functioned well in groups of a hundred or so, but don’t work nearly as well anymore.

[SEQ RERUN] Your Price for Joining

[SEQ RERUN] The Sa­cred Mundane

[SEQ RERUN] On Things that are Awesome

[SEQ RERUN] You’re Cal­ling *Who* A Cult Leader?

[SEQ RERUN] Tol­er­ate Tolerance

[SEQ RERUN] Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

[SEQ RERUN] Ra­tion­al­ist Fiction

• MinibearRexMar 29, 2013, 4:38 AM

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  in reply to: torekp’s comment on: [SEQ RERUN] What Do We Mean By “Ra­tion­al­ity”?

  The trouble is that there is nothing in epistemic rationality that corresponds to “motivations” or “goals” or anything like that. Epistemic rationality can tell you that pushing a button will lead to puppies not being tortured, and not pushing it will lead to puppies being tortured, but unless you have an additional system that incorporates desires for puppies to not be tortured, as well as a system for achieving those desires, that’s all you can do with epistemic rationality.