Being able to parse philosophical arguments is evidence of being rational. When you make philosophical arguments, you should think of yourself as only conveying content to those who are rationally parsing things, and conveying only appearance/gloss/style to those who aren’t rationally parsing things.
I think being smart is only very small evidence for being rational (especially globally rational, as Zach is assuming here, rather than locally rational).
I think most of the evidence towards being rational of understanding philosophical evidence is screened off by being smart (which again, is a very very weak correlation already).
Being able to parse philosophical arguments is evidence of being rational. When you make philosophical arguments, you should think of yourself as only conveying content to those who are rationally parsing things, and conveying only appearance/gloss/style to those who aren’t rationally parsing things.
Uh, we are talking about holding people to MUCH higher rationality standards than the ability to parse Phil arguments.
I think being smart is only very small evidence for being rational (especially globally rational, as Zach is assuming here, rather than locally rational).
I think most of the evidence towards being rational of understanding philosophical evidence is screened off by being smart (which again, is a very very weak correlation already).