He thinks he is succeeding when people become deconverted from formal religion, and doesn’t check they they have become reconverted to lesswrongianity.
Really? I get much more of the “have a deliberately built, internally consistent, and concordant with reality worldview” vibe from EY and LW than I do from most of the new atheist movement.
If someone wants to design a rationalist organistation that is free from all the group-level, sociological forces towards irrationality, they are going to have to study some (yech!) social psyhchoogy...I know, soft sciences!
Really? I get much more of the “have a deliberately built, internally consistent, and concordant with reality worldview” vibe from EY and LW than I do from most of the new atheist movement.
I don’t see what you are getting at. Are you saying the psychological basis of a belief (groupthink vesus rational appraisal) doens’t matter, so long as the belief is correct.
Really? I get much more of the “have a deliberately built, internally consistent, and concordant with reality worldview” vibe from EY and LW than I do from most of the new atheist movement.
Have you read the Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor sequence?
I don’t see what you are getting at. Are you saying the psychological basis of a belief (groupthink vesus rational appraisal) doens’t matter, so long as the belief is correct.