Perhaps we’re bad at communicating rationality to a general audience?
Our community has generally not tried to communicate rationality to a general audience.
Julia Galef’s book “The Scout Mindset” would be a book about communicating rationality to a general audience. I don’t think that someone who reads it without prejudice would come up with the above article.
When it comes to the rationality community it’s also worth noting that we generally hold positions that are very complex. A normal person is not going to understand how physicists think about physics by reading a FAQ and the won’t understand how rationalist think about thinking by reading a FAQ. The positions are just to complex to get by reading a FAQ.
Our community has generally not tried to communicate rationality to a general audience.
Julia Galef’s book “The Scout Mindset” would be a book about communicating rationality to a general audience. I don’t think that someone who reads it without prejudice would come up with the above article.
When it comes to the rationality community it’s also worth noting that we generally hold positions that are very complex. A normal person is not going to understand how physicists think about physics by reading a FAQ and the won’t understand how rationalist think about thinking by reading a FAQ. The positions are just to complex to get by reading a FAQ.