This is a pretty good idea, actually. Before I started reading posts on Less Wrong, I didn’t have a negative view of rationality, and saw it as “common sense,” or “logic.” I did see it as ignoring the emotional bits and focusing wholly on the facts, though. (I became interested in Less Wrong after reading through Harry Potter and the MOR, finding the theories etc. in it fascinating, and eventually meandering over to this site, which I have been browsing for several months now.)
I’ll be on campus in about a month and a half and I’ll make sure to casually ask my classmates. It’s been added to my mental to-do list. Though it will be a bit difficult to ask it in the exact same way without sounding artificial, and I don’t want to ask it differently each time since that would not be very accurate.
This is a pretty good idea, actually. Before I started reading posts on Less Wrong, I didn’t have a negative view of rationality, and saw it as “common sense,” or “logic.” I did see it as ignoring the emotional bits and focusing wholly on the facts, though. (I became interested in Less Wrong after reading through Harry Potter and the MOR, finding the theories etc. in it fascinating, and eventually meandering over to this site, which I have been browsing for several months now.)
I’ll be on campus in about a month and a half and I’ll make sure to casually ask my classmates. It’s been added to my mental to-do list. Though it will be a bit difficult to ask it in the exact same way without sounding artificial, and I don’t want to ask it differently each time since that would not be very accurate.