Are you saying it’s more rational not ever to consider some ways of thinking?
Yes. Rationality isn’t necessarily about having accurate beliefs. It just tends that way because they seem to be useful. Rationality is about achieving your aims in the most efficient way possible.
Oh, someone may have to look into some ways of thinking, if people who use them start showing signs of being unusually effective at achieving relevant ends in some way. Those people would become super-dominant, it would be obvious that their way of thinking was superior. However, there’s no reason that it makes sense for any of us to do it at the moment. And if they never show those signs then it will never be rational to look into them.
It’s a massive waste of time and resources for individuals to consider every idea and every way of thinking before making a decision. You’re getting closer to death every day. You have to decide which ways of thinking you are going to invest your time in—which ones have the greatest evidence of giving you something you want.
That’s the thing for rationalists really, I think—chances of giving you what you want. It’s entirely possible that if you don’t want to achieve anything in this world with your life that it may just be a mistake for you personally to pursue rationality very far at all—at the end of the day you’re probably not going to get anything from it if all you really want to do is feel justified in believing in god.
Yes. Rationality isn’t necessarily about having accurate beliefs. It just tends that way because they seem to be useful. Rationality is about achieving your aims in the most efficient way possible.
Oh, someone may have to look into some ways of thinking, if people who use them start showing signs of being unusually effective at achieving relevant ends in some way. Those people would become super-dominant, it would be obvious that their way of thinking was superior. However, there’s no reason that it makes sense for any of us to do it at the moment. And if they never show those signs then it will never be rational to look into them.
It’s a massive waste of time and resources for individuals to consider every idea and every way of thinking before making a decision. You’re getting closer to death every day. You have to decide which ways of thinking you are going to invest your time in—which ones have the greatest evidence of giving you something you want.
That’s the thing for rationalists really, I think—chances of giving you what you want. It’s entirely possible that if you don’t want to achieve anything in this world with your life that it may just be a mistake for you personally to pursue rationality very far at all—at the end of the day you’re probably not going to get anything from it if all you really want to do is feel justified in believing in god.