Rationality as martial art
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A metaphor for rationality as the martial art of 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)