Lukeprog and Julia are pretty good examples of how rationality awesomely affects someone who’s not afflicted by akrasia as strongly as many of us. Finding a general remedy for akrasia is still a major unsolved problem in the rationalist community, of course.
Anecdotal. Showing how rationality could improve their lives if only they were this way that they are not is not productive. Stinks as hard as “your prayer didn’t work because your faith wasn’t strong enough”.
Lukeprog and Julia are pretty good examples of how rationality awesomely affects someone who’s not afflicted by akrasia as strongly as many of us. Finding a general remedy for akrasia is still a major unsolved problem in the rationalist community, of course.
Anecdotal. Showing how rationality could improve their lives if only they were this way that they are not is not productive. Stinks as hard as “your prayer didn’t work because your faith wasn’t strong enough”.
Analogy:
Person 1: “Penicillin isn’t that great- it hasn’t helped my flu at all.”
Person 2: “It’s had awesome results for people with bacterial infections, but it doesn’t seem to help with viral ones.”
Person 3: “How dare you blame Person 1 for having the wrong kind of infection!”
Person 2: “What the hell?”
well analogized.
You still shouldn’t be peddling penicillin as a miracle cure. Likewise with LW rationality.
Except that there are no qualities a person can have that will get prayers to work.
Good point. Do you think non-rationalist people will be able to make that distinction?
I expect everyone who doesn’t believe in god would be able to, not all of whom are “rationalist”.
That aside, why do you ask? I’m a bit confused by your question.