The following is the transcript of my troop deployment (i.e. ending rant) from episode 98 of my news podcast The Mind Killer. If you like it, please consider subscribing to the podcast There’s a certain failure mode among rationalists where we think that because we’re good at a lot of things, we will be good at everything. It makes sense, because rationalism really is filled with brilliant polymaths who are able to understand and perform in complex fields to a, quite frankly, astounding degree. However, this can sometimes lead to overconfidence and an unjustified assumption of competence, especially in fields that we don’t tend to have much respect for.
On Justice in the Ratsphere
On Justice in the Ratsphere
On Justice in the Ratsphere
The following is the transcript of my troop deployment (i.e. ending rant) from episode 98 of my news podcast The Mind Killer. If you like it, please consider subscribing to the podcast There’s a certain failure mode among rationalists where we think that because we’re good at a lot of things, we will be good at everything. It makes sense, because rationalism really is filled with brilliant polymaths who are able to understand and perform in complex fields to a, quite frankly, astounding degree. However, this can sometimes lead to overconfidence and an unjustified assumption of competence, especially in fields that we don’t tend to have much respect for.