To help save the world, you need to be rational. Mainly because it’s a really, really hard problem.
Being irrational doesn’t prevent one from stumbling upon some technique necessary for world-saving. It just doesn’t concentrate the likelihood of finding it in that direction. See for instance the irrationalist list, or Buckminster Fuller.
Being irrational doesn’t prevent one from stumbling upon some technique necessary for world-saving. It just doesn’t concentrate the likelihood of finding it in that direction. See for instance the irrationalist list, or Buckminster Fuller.