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Hollywood Rationality

Edited by Vladimir_Nesov, Normal_Anomaly, Zack_M_Davis, CronoDAS, et al. last updated 10th Oct 2012
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Hollywood rationality is a popular stereotype of what rationality is about. It presents "rationalists" as word-obsessed, floating in endless verbal space disconnected from reality, reciting figures to more decimal places than are necessary, or speaking in a dull monotone. Hollywood rationalists also tend to either not have strong (or any) emotions. When they do, they often do not express them. Needless to say, this has nothing to do with actual rationality.

See also

  • Rationality
  • Joy in the merely real, Fun theory
  • Emotion
  • Belief as attire, Semantic stopsign

External links

  • Straw Vulcan - TV Tropes Wiki entry discussing the problems with the common stereotype.
  • Julia Galef Skepticon IV talk on the same theme - summary on Less Wrong

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