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To teach people about a topic you've labeled "rationality", it helps for them to be interested in "rationality". (There are less direct ways to teach people how to attain the map that reflects the territory, or optimize reality according to their values; but the explicit method is the course I tend to take.) And when people explain why they're not interested in rationality, one of the most commonly proffered reasons tends to be like: "Oh, I've known a couple of rational people and they didn't seem any happier." Who are they thinking of? Probably an Objectivist or some such. Maybe someone they know who's an ordinary scientist. Or an ordinary atheist. That's really not a whole lot of rationality, as I have previously said. Even if you limit yourself to people who can derive Bayes's Theorem—which is going to eliminate, what, 98% of the above personnel?—that's still not a whole lot of rationality. I mean, it's a pretty basic theorem. Since the beginning I've had a sense that there ou

x A Sense That More Is Possible — LessWrong The Craft and the Community Rationality Verification Rationality Frontpage 188 A Sense That More Is Possible by Eliezer Yudkowsky 13th Mar 2009 5 min read 220 188 To teach people about a topic you've labeled "rationality", it helps for them to be interested in "rationality". (There are less direct ways to teach people how to attain the map that reflects the territory , or optimize reality according to their values; but the explicit method is the course I tend to take.) And when people explain why they're not interested in rationality, one of the most

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