[extropy-chat] Victoria News: Singularitarians in the City of Gardens

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/6/06, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Dirk Bruere wrote:
> >
> > Rationalism does not get big things done.
> > That takes emotion, and often very unreasonable and irrational emotion
> > bordering on insanity.
>
> My recent reply to Russell Wallace serves to this unedited.
>
> You're conflating empirical propositions with moral choices, mixing up
> probability theory and decision theory.  Perhaps you are confused
> because English uses the same word "believe in" to indicate both your
> hypotheses and your ethics.


I'm saying that rationalism is not enough.
It does not *motivate* - it's a tool in the service of emotion.

Dirk
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