This post is part of myHazardous Guide To Rationality.I don’t expect this to be new or exciting to frequent LW people, and I would super appreciate comments and feedback in light of intents for the sequence, as outlined in the above link. Also, note this is a STRUCTURE post, again see the above link for what that means.
You brain is primarily designed for social reasoning, not reality reasoning.
Hansionian exploration of how our minds are structured to play politics.
Most people don’t actually need to be that attuned to reality to get by and live an okay/great life.
Much of what people say is debate or arguing about the truth, is actually a coordination game where people are trying to make social outcomes happen by “logically trapping” others and “appealing to the reasonable person interface”
It is possible for YOU to be trying to achieve a social outcome, yet think you are just talking about your beliefs about reality.
There are a lot of English sentences that feel like questions you can ask about the world, that are just nonsense
It feels like words mean something, but they don’t. It’s people who mean things, and they happen to use words.
Given all that a lot of the people you will interact with won’t have a deep understanding on all of the ways their natural manner of thinking can lead to nonsense, how might you go about communicating with people?
STRUCTURE: How the Social Affects your rationality
This post is part of my Hazardous Guide To Rationality. I don’t expect this to be new or exciting to frequent LW people, and I would super appreciate comments and feedback in light of intents for the sequence, as outlined in the above link. Also, note this is a STRUCTURE post, again see the above link for what that means.
You brain is primarily designed for social reasoning, not reality reasoning.
Posts: face of the ice, of two minds,
Hansionian exploration of how our minds are structured to play politics.
Most people don’t actually need to be that attuned to reality to get by and live an okay/great life.
Much of what people say is debate or arguing about the truth, is actually a coordination game where people are trying to make social outcomes happen by “logically trapping” others and “appealing to the reasonable person interface”
It is possible for YOU to be trying to achieve a social outcome, yet think you are just talking about your beliefs about reality.
Insert A Humans Guide to Words (but condensed)
There are a lot of English sentences that feel like questions you can ask about the world, that are just nonsense
It feels like words mean something, but they don’t. It’s people who mean things, and they happen to use words.
Given all that a lot of the people you will interact with won’t have a deep understanding on all of the ways their natural manner of thinking can lead to nonsense, how might you go about communicating with people?
Double Crux