What we need is a rationality equivalent of a katana or a machine gun. One for each student, some basic training and even ninja masters go down pretty quickly (unless they really can dodge bullets). Occupatio “weapon of mass rationality”.
Perhaps the notion of an ‘art of rationality’ is completely misguided. Why are we relying on the skills of individual people who evolved to be irrational when systems can be built for the purpose of giving rational answers? Why walk to the answer when you can drive?
Following this analogy, you still need to people to get good at driving, at choosing between vehicles, building vehicles, knowing when a particular vehicle is or isn’t appropriate and not driving the school bus when drunk.
Some spectacular crashes have been caused by driving systems built for the purpose of giving rational answers without due care and attention.
This has been voted into the negatives, but I’m not sure its so basically bad as an idea. If we can set up a system where all of the students, teachers, and any other staff, are all in continuous rationality competitions with each other, then this would quickly cause one to hone their skills.
For example, maybe the teacher of a class is chosen from within a class and has to fight (metaphorically) to maintain that position. Maybe the choice of whether you are teacher, student, principal, cafeteria cook, or janitor depends on the outcomes of numerous rationality contests between members.
And note that I don’t necessarily mean that cafeteria cook or janitor would be positions that go to the losers...
What we need is a rationality equivalent of a katana or a machine gun. One for each student, some basic training and even ninja masters go down pretty quickly (unless they really can dodge bullets). Occupatio “weapon of mass rationality”.
Software tools for rationality, decision support systems, might very well be more valuable than extensive personal training in rationality.
Perhaps the notion of an ‘art of rationality’ is completely misguided. Why are we relying on the skills of individual people who evolved to be irrational when systems can be built for the purpose of giving rational answers? Why walk to the answer when you can drive?
Following this analogy, you still need to people to get good at driving, at choosing between vehicles, building vehicles, knowing when a particular vehicle is or isn’t appropriate and not driving the school bus when drunk.
Some spectacular crashes have been caused by driving systems built for the purpose of giving rational answers without due care and attention.
This has been voted into the negatives, but I’m not sure its so basically bad as an idea. If we can set up a system where all of the students, teachers, and any other staff, are all in continuous rationality competitions with each other, then this would quickly cause one to hone their skills.
For example, maybe the teacher of a class is chosen from within a class and has to fight (metaphorically) to maintain that position. Maybe the choice of whether you are teacher, student, principal, cafeteria cook, or janitor depends on the outcomes of numerous rationality contests between members.
And note that I don’t necessarily mean that cafeteria cook or janitor would be positions that go to the losers...