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Rationality As Martial Art

Edited by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Grognor, bjr, Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg), et al. last updated 25th Sep 2020

A metaphor for rationality as the martial art of the mind; training brains in the same fashion as muscles.

The metaphor is intended to have complex connotations, rather than being strictly positive. Do modern-day martial arts suffer from being insufficiently tested in realistic fighting, and do attempts at rationality training run into the same problem?

Blog posts

  • The Martial Art of Rationality
  • A Sense That More Is Possible
  • Epistemic Viciousness
  • 3 Levels of Rationality Verification
  • Mandatory Secret Identities
  • Whining-Based Communities
  • In What Ways Have You Become Stronger? by Vladimir Nesov
  • Rational Me or We? by Robin Hanson
  • Individual Rationality is a Matter of Life and Death by patrissimo

See also

  • Problem of verifying rationality
  • Rationality
  • Group rationality
  • Rationality is systematized winning
  • No safe defense

References

  • Gillian Russell (2008). Epistemic Viciousness in the Martial Arts. (PDF)
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