If one bases one’s self-esteem on one’s rationality and one is a human who’s frequently doing things that are not rational, being honest about one’s state is depressing.
We aren’t always rational, we do things that make us comfortable and keep us safe and able to function. I think if we died our ego and super ego to rationality we all might as well have a mass suicide party and go together because that’s about the mood we would all be in.
If you’re really honest about your willingness to be rational, it seems like this could be kind of depressing.
Could you expand on that? I’m not sure I follow...
If one bases one’s self-esteem on one’s rationality and one is a human who’s frequently doing things that are not rational, being honest about one’s state is depressing.
Human beings are not very willing to be rational, and that includes those of us on Less Wrong.
We aren’t always rational, we do things that make us comfortable and keep us safe and able to function. I think if we died our ego and super ego to rationality we all might as well have a mass suicide party and go together because that’s about the mood we would all be in.