“you can’t kick everything upstairs to the slow system, so you should train the fast system.”
I know that postrationality can’t be distilled to a single sentence and I’m picking on it a bit unfairly, but “post”-rationality can’t differentiate itself from rationality on that. Eliezer wrote about system 1 and system 2 in 2006:
When people think of “emotion” and “rationality” as opposed, I suspect that they are really thinking of System 1 and System 2—fast perceptual judgments versus slow deliberative judgments. Deliberative judgments aren’t always true, and perceptual judgments aren’t always false; so it is very important to distinguish that dichotomy from “rationality”. Both systems can serve the goal of truth, or defeat it, according to how they are used.
And it’s not like this statement was ever controversial on LW.
You can’t get any more “core LW rationality” than the fricking Sequences. If someone thinks that rationality is about forcing everything into System 2 then, well, they should reread the fricking Sequences.
Minor: but I appreciate you using the word “fricking”, instead of the obvious alternative. For me, it feels like it gets the emphaticness across just as well, without the crudeness.
I know that postrationality can’t be distilled to a single sentence and I’m picking on it a bit unfairly, but “post”-rationality can’t differentiate itself from rationality on that. Eliezer wrote about system 1 and system 2 in 2006:
And it’s not like this statement was ever controversial on LW.
You can’t get any more “core LW rationality” than the fricking Sequences. If someone thinks that rationality is about forcing everything into System 2 then, well, they should reread the fricking Sequences.
Minor: but I appreciate you using the word “fricking”, instead of the obvious alternative. For me, it feels like it gets the emphaticness across just as well, without the crudeness.