What is "rationality"?
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Uploaded by measureofdoubt on Mar 28, 2011
What do people mean by rationality? Julia Galef from http://measureofdoubt.com discusses the various ways understand word rationality and how different meanings relate to each other.
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5 comments so far, 4 of them referring to your looks/personality... *facepalm* Some of your Youtube viewers need to give their instrumental rationalities an audit.
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For you, I'd give up my irrational beliefs any day.
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Your videos should have more views. It's funny, most of my favourite Youtubers typically only get a few thousand views per video.
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I think it's more difficult in the main for people to be instrumentally rational than epistemically so.
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I would like to be both epistemically and instrumentally rational
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When debating apologists, I often end up debating about Reason, namely, arguing that the most important (epistemic) rational arguments aren't deductive. A clever schizophrenic could craft their delusions to be both logically consistent and immune to direct empirical refutation, but we'd still know that they're wrong; it's by Reason, not Logic, that we can do this. Deductive logic is impotent to tell us anything actually new (non-ampliative). Inductive/abductive reasoning is heart of rationality.
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A. She looks lovely.
B. Geeky = Sexy.
C. She is a single Jew. That is very attractive for Jewish guys who try to make their mothers happy.
D. She makes sense! there is not much to comment about.
E. Does Julia write at Less Wrong?
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maybe I couldn't make it through this video because this all seems elementary to me.
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do me julia, rationally.
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@BrynWebb18 That's why whenever I watch a video by a reasonably attractive woman, I scroll down. That way I'm only listening to the content of what she's saying.
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Hi Julia !
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@Bryn -- Sigh, I know. Well, it's Youtube -- I suppose I should just consider myself lucky that no one's calling me a "fucken mor0n!!!!111!," right?
measureofdoubt 10 months ago 11