We create technologies to help us do stuff better—Taras’ sword being only one example. Why not a technology to help us think better? Heck, there are plenty of “mental technologies” besides Rationality—a great example would be the Memory Palace visualization technique (it’s featured in an episode of Sherlock, for bonus reference points, but it’s not portrayed very well; Google it instead.)
Whee, references!
We create technologies to help us do stuff better—Taras’ sword being only one example. Why not a technology to help us think better? Heck, there are plenty of “mental technologies” besides Rationality—a great example would be the Memory Palace visualization technique (it’s featured in an episode of Sherlock, for bonus reference points, but it’s not portrayed very well; Google it instead.)