Eliezer Yudkowsky: “Handling this kind of situation has to count as part of the art.”
How about the following interpretation of this situation: Jo is likely to suffer worse personal relationships with her husband, children and friends because of discovering the art of rationality, and that in this world that we live in, most lifestyle-choices [especially the happy family lifestyle choice] are hindered, not helped, by being more rational.
See, for example, Steven Pinker’s TED talk on “the blank slate”. Modern rationality has the unfortunate news for parents that parental care and upbringing has very little influence on how well their children do in life. In any case, having widely different worldviews is basically disaster for a marriage, and I’m pretty sure that there’s research to back this up.
Full rationality is, on the individual level, a bad thing for most people. Of course rationality can be thought of as valuable for its own sake, and we should still promote rationality because it is of massive benefit to humanity as a whole.
So how about the following advice for Jo: try really hard to forget about “rationality”, perhaps go see a hypnotist to get rid of your doubts about Christianity.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: “Handling this kind of situation has to count as part of the art.”
How about the following interpretation of this situation: Jo is likely to suffer worse personal relationships with her husband, children and friends because of discovering the art of rationality, and that in this world that we live in, most lifestyle-choices [especially the happy family lifestyle choice] are hindered, not helped, by being more rational.
See, for example, Steven Pinker’s TED talk on “the blank slate”. Modern rationality has the unfortunate news for parents that parental care and upbringing has very little influence on how well their children do in life. In any case, having widely different worldviews is basically disaster for a marriage, and I’m pretty sure that there’s research to back this up.
Full rationality is, on the individual level, a bad thing for most people. Of course rationality can be thought of as valuable for its own sake, and we should still promote rationality because it is of massive benefit to humanity as a whole.
So how about the following advice for Jo: try really hard to forget about “rationality”, perhaps go see a hypnotist to get rid of your doubts about Christianity.