I got into this conversation because I thought I would find something new here. As an egoist I am voluntarily leaving this conversation in disagreement because I have other things to do in life. Thank you for your time.
The short version is that I’m not sold on rationality, and while I haven’t read 100% of the sequences it’s also not like my understanding is 0%. I’d have read more if they weren’t so long. And while an intelligent person can come up with intelligent ways of thinking, I’m not sure this is reversible. I’m also mostly interested in tail-end knowledge. For some posts, I can guess the content by the title, which is boring. Finally, teaching people what not to do is really inefficient, since the space of possible mistakes is really big.
Your last link needs an s before the dot.
Anyway, I respect your decision, and I understand the purpose of this site a lot better now (though there’s still a small, misleading difference between the explanation of rationality and in how users are behaving. Even the name of the website gave the wrong impression).
Honestly majority of the points presented here are not new and already been addressed in
https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality
or https://www.readthesequence.com/
I got into this conversation because I thought I would find something new here. As an egoist I am voluntarily leaving this conversation in disagreement because I have other things to do in life. Thank you for your time.
The short version is that I’m not sold on rationality, and while I haven’t read 100% of the sequences it’s also not like my understanding is 0%. I’d have read more if they weren’t so long. And while an intelligent person can come up with intelligent ways of thinking, I’m not sure this is reversible. I’m also mostly interested in tail-end knowledge. For some posts, I can guess the content by the title, which is boring. Finally, teaching people what not to do is really inefficient, since the space of possible mistakes is really big.
Your last link needs an s before the dot.
Anyway, I respect your decision, and I understand the purpose of this site a lot better now (though there’s still a small, misleading difference between the explanation of rationality and in how users are behaving. Even the name of the website gave the wrong impression).