Nice! Looking forward to reading your post. I wrote a few notes myself under the title “Should You Become Rational”*, but it turn into enough for a post. One of the things that I wanted to consider is whether its someone’s duty to become more rational, which I think is an interesting question (and it’s a topic that was discussed on LW, see Your Rationality is My Business). My current conclusion is that your obligation to become more rational is relative to how much influence you have to wish to have on the world and on other people. Of course, even if true, this point might be slightly moot, since only someone who is already interested in rationality might agree with it, others are unlikely to care.
* “Rational” pretty much for lack of a better word that still kept it short, didn’t want to use rationalist as that’s an identification as part of a specific group, which isn’t the point
Nice! Looking forward to reading your post. I wrote a few notes myself under the title “Should You Become Rational”*, but it turn into enough for a post. One of the things that I wanted to consider is whether its someone’s duty to become more rational, which I think is an interesting question (and it’s a topic that was discussed on LW, see Your Rationality is My Business). My current conclusion is that your obligation to become more rational is relative to how much influence you have to wish to have on the world and on other people. Of course, even if true, this point might be slightly moot, since only someone who is already interested in rationality might agree with it, others are unlikely to care.
* “Rational” pretty much for lack of a better word that still kept it short, didn’t want to use rationalist as that’s an identification as part of a specific group, which isn’t the point