Maybe I should have spoken more precisely. He wasn’t telling individuals to be apolitical. It’s more that he didn’t think it was a good idea to center the rationalist community around it as it would interfere with the rationalist project. ie. That even with our community striving to improve our rationality that it’d still be beyond us to bring in discussions of politics without corrupting our epistemology.
So when I said “we couldn’t expect our rationality skills to be as helpful in determining truth in politics”, I was actually primarily talking about the process of a community attempting to converge on the truth rather than an individual.
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Maybe I should have spoken more precisely. He wasn’t telling individuals to be apolitical. It’s more that he didn’t think it was a good idea to center the rationalist community around it as it would interfere with the rationalist project. ie. That even with our community striving to improve our rationality that it’d still be beyond us to bring in discussions of politics without corrupting our epistemology.
So when I said “we couldn’t expect our rationality skills to be as helpful in determining truth in politics”, I was actually primarily talking about the process of a community attempting to converge on the truth rather than an individual.