From what i’ve read and able to understand(a little) after spending 3 months reading this blog is that rationality is (just to put what has already been said lot of times by eliezer) “something that helps us getting more of what we want”, please correct me if i have got it dead wrong, else i might be “de-rationalised” in a rational way. Im a pathalogical liar, i have little to hide (nobody who knows me visits this blog, i think, and if somebody does and happens to read this, then he wouldn’t mind it i’m sure).
″........- the theory being that if you give yourself permission to lie outright, you will no longer feel the need to distort internal belief. In this view the choice is between lying consciously and lying unconsciously, and a rationalist should choose the former.”
I like the idea of outright lying, but what i’ve realised over a period of time is that the “outward lying” slowly creeps into the “conscious” and “aware” mind and sometimes i forget that i am lying, i guess it happens to other also.
Again, from the definition of rational (as i ve put it above), i think honesty is related to rationality, since not being honest may help us want more of what we want or just get us what we want. How well we manage lies and are able to separate conscious and unconscious lies is subjective.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies—Ralph waldo emerson
What you say, or write down, tends to be more strongly remembered than what you just think. (This is the basis for writing down your ideas whenever you get them (speaking them aloud is helpful if you can’t stop to write).)
From what i’ve read and able to understand(a little) after spending 3 months reading this blog is that rationality is (just to put what has already been said lot of times by eliezer) “something that helps us getting more of what we want”, please correct me if i have got it dead wrong, else i might be “de-rationalised” in a rational way. Im a pathalogical liar, i have little to hide (nobody who knows me visits this blog, i think, and if somebody does and happens to read this, then he wouldn’t mind it i’m sure).
″........- the theory being that if you give yourself permission to lie outright, you will no longer feel the need to distort internal belief. In this view the choice is between lying consciously and lying unconsciously, and a rationalist should choose the former.”
I like the idea of outright lying, but what i’ve realised over a period of time is that the “outward lying” slowly creeps into the “conscious” and “aware” mind and sometimes i forget that i am lying, i guess it happens to other also.
Again, from the definition of rational (as i ve put it above), i think honesty is related to rationality, since not being honest may help us want more of what we want or just get us what we want. How well we manage lies and are able to separate conscious and unconscious lies is subjective.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies—Ralph waldo emerson
What you say, or write down, tends to be more strongly remembered than what you just think. (This is the basis for writing down your ideas whenever you get them (speaking them aloud is helpful if you can’t stop to write).)