Re Mental Mountains, I think one of the reasons that I get worried when I meet another youngin that is super gung-ho about rationality/”being logical and coherent”, is that I don’t expect them to have a good Theory of How to Change Your Mind. I worry that they will reason out a bunch of conclusions, succeed in high-level changing their minds, think that they’ve deeply changed their minds, but instead leave hoards of unresolved emotional memories/models that they learn to ignore and fuck them up later.
Re Mental Mountains, I think one of the reasons that I get worried when I meet another youngin that is super gung-ho about rationality/”being logical and coherent”, is that I don’t expect them to have a good Theory of How to Change Your Mind. I worry that they will reason out a bunch of conclusions, succeed in high-level changing their minds, think that they’ve deeply changed their minds, but instead leave hoards of unresolved emotional memories/models that they learn to ignore and fuck them up later.