“It’s been said that being half a rationalist is dangerous. How do you communicate enough rationality for it to not be dangerous? ”
I think this is quite a hurdle. I struggle a lot when I think about how to get others to be more rational, or communicating ideas that people might only understand half of.
The Sequences are great but they tend to build from the ground up, and so it’s hard for them to seem relevant.
Perhaps a reductive approach? So we try to begin with essays/tools/models that are more relevant to thought processes that the layman would regularly engage in, before asking them to then explore those thought processes.
“It’s been said that being half a rationalist is dangerous. How do you communicate enough rationality for it to not be dangerous? ”
I think this is quite a hurdle. I struggle a lot when I think about how to get others to be more rational, or communicating ideas that people might only understand half of. The Sequences are great but they tend to build from the ground up, and so it’s hard for them to seem relevant. Perhaps a reductive approach? So we try to begin with essays/tools/models that are more relevant to thought processes that the layman would regularly engage in, before asking them to then explore those thought processes.