RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
July 16, 2021 at 5:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2021 at 5:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If we were fully rational, our rational reactions may be as immediate as our emotional ones, which is to say that the immediacy we believe to be detrimental about reactionary acts could be a shared attribute between our currently conceived other-thans and our hypothetically super rational agent.
There seems to be, to me, a process of lumping bad things as irrational. We imagine that more rational creatures than ourselves would be less violent, less reactionary, less all of our negatively weighted things. Idk why we think that, especially with our actual selves as the primary example of what rational creatures are like.
The most rational creatures on earth are the most -insert our bad things here- on earth. A super-rational agent may be like that, just more. Better and more committed to violence. More sure of their immediate responses. Less skeptical of their own motivations.
There seems to be, to me, a process of lumping bad things as irrational. We imagine that more rational creatures than ourselves would be less violent, less reactionary, less all of our negatively weighted things. Idk why we think that, especially with our actual selves as the primary example of what rational creatures are like.
The most rational creatures on earth are the most -insert our bad things here- on earth. A super-rational agent may be like that, just more. Better and more committed to violence. More sure of their immediate responses. Less skeptical of their own motivations.
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