Ra­tion­al­ity As Mar­tial Art

A metaphor for rationality as the martial art of the mind; training brains in the same fashion as muscles.

The metaphor is intended to have complex connotations, rather than being strictly positive. Do modern-day martial arts suffer from being insufficiently tested in realistic fighting, and do attempts at rationality training run into the same problem?

Blog posts

• The Martial Art of Rationality

• A Sense That More Is Possible

• Epistemic Viciousness

• 3 Levels of Rationality Verification

• Mandatory Secret Identities

• Whining-Based Communities

• In What Ways Have You Become Stronger? by Vladimir Nesov

• Rational Me or We? by Robin Hanson

• Individual Rationality is a Matter of Life and Death by patrissimo

See also

• Problem of verifying rationality

• Rationality

• Group rationality

• Rationality is systematized winning

• No safe defense

References

• Gillian Russell (2008). Epistemic Viciousness in the Martial Arts. (PDF)