[extropy-chat] Mature rationality

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Come on Eliezer, rationality is a wonderful thing but lets not turn it
into a cage for thoughts. In some circumstances you actually perform
better, in an objective sense, if you choose to let yourself slip into
an irrational mode for a little while. Ever tried?
G.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:05:07 -0400, Eliezer Yudkowsky
<sentience at pobox.com> wrote:

> Anyone who wishes to make a serious commitment to rationality, to learn it
> as an art the way that judo or fencing is an art, must commit to being
> rational all the time, every time, twenty four hours a day seven days a
> week, with not a single area of life reserved for relaxing with some
> comfortable nonsense, not one place left where that darned inconvenient
> rationality business can't stomp all over the things you want to believe.