Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I must admit that even though I expected that some “rationalists” would be just as defensive as religious folks about their views, looking at my karma now I realize that I grossly underestimated their number. That’s a good lesson to me for lecturing other people about overconfidence.
″ For certain types of problems that require high intelligence to solve, the views of the masses will indeed be worthless on average. ”
I generally share your opinion in case the debated issues at stake are devoid of emotional charge. However, once we move to our deeply cherished views high IQ people can be just as good at self-deception as anybody else, if not better. As Orwell said, “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.”
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I must admit that even though I expected that some “rationalists” would be just as defensive as religious folks about their views, looking at my karma now I realize that I grossly underestimated their number. That’s a good lesson to me for lecturing other people about overconfidence.
″ For certain types of problems that require high intelligence to solve, the views of the masses will indeed be worthless on average. ”
I generally share your opinion in case the debated issues at stake are devoid of emotional charge. However, once we move to our deeply cherished views high IQ people can be just as good at self-deception as anybody else, if not better. As Orwell said, “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.”