Related to: Individual Rationality is a Matter of Life and Death, The Benefits of Rationality, Rationality is Systematized WinningBut I finally snapped after reading: Mandatory Secret IdentitiesOkay, the title was for shock value. Rationality is pretty great. Just not quite as great as everyone here seems to think it is.For this post, I will be using "extreme rationality" or "x-rationality" in the sense of "techniques and theories from Overcoming Bias, Less Wrong, or similar deliberate formal...| www.greaterwrong.com
Authors Note: I said in my previous post that the next would be about systems to build common knowledge. That post is running very much behind schedule, so I'll be publishing others in the meantime.| www.thelastrationalist.com
[Previously in sequence: Epistemic Learned Helplessness] I. “Culture is the secret of humanity’s success” sounds like the most vapid possible thesis. The Secret Of Our Success by …| Slate Star Codex
The difference between sacrificial and nonsacrificial violence is anything but exact; it is even arbitrary. At times the difference threatens to disappear entirely - René Girard, Violence and the Sacred , 1972. Strategically deployed, the rumor represents one of the most powerful weapons that can| Traditions of Conflict
In the beginning was the world, and the world was made of atoms, and the world was atoms. Truth Existed, as something objective and elusive, to which I could be closer or farther. With my first (go…| Knowingless