X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=08732e35e1fcec8e51adae2b6a6c23b11a2c520e;hp=8d4f747444a50649c43d49f26377759f1759377d;hb=05733195dc87b4989d54471335dd30424b1dfc5e;hpb=745cb4dc56474229254f6d85adff12506e85444a diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 8d4f747..08732e3 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -720,4 +720,15 @@ https://www.foxylists.com/etiquette > 6. Do not ask for additional pictures, selfies or services they have not already agreed upon. > One nice thing about intellectuals is that when they turn, they frequently leave behind a detailed, mostly coherent record of what a person turning into a rhinoceros thinks is going on. -https://twitter.com/ben_r_hoffman/status/1477733825702936581 \ No newline at end of file +https://twitter.com/ben_r_hoffman/status/1477733825702936581 + +Rationality was supposed to be important!! + +Paul says so— +> My current sense is that cooperation has a better tradeoff than some forms of enhancement (e.g. giving humans bigger brains) and worse than others (e.g. improving the accuracy of people's and institution's beliefs about the world). + +Rob says so, too— +> Help ourselves think more clearly. (I imagine this including a lot of trying-to-become-more-rational, developing and following relatively open/honest communication norms, and trying to build better mental models of crucial parts of the world.) + +> their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints +https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228