buchhalter37

As chobeat kindly pointed out, nobody is criticizing rationality or reason here. It’s the worship of rationality that I think is deeply problematic.

Examples? Economic models of society. Lesswrong.com. Joscha Bach’s talk.

Rationality is not the answer to life, the universe and everything. (It’s 42.)

Apologies for the sarcasm. I felt that the previous comment was very much ad hominem and the edit was particularly insidious. But you’re right, no excuse for bad form here :)

That captures a lot of my thoughts, yes! If you read German, I also found this interesting dissection of an earlier talk: http://mspr0.de/?p=4521

Did you edit your comment to remove the condescending remark about my new HN account? Wow.

Well I’m glad to hear that “the East” had something to contribute too!