Agreed on all counts, except that a strong value on rationality seems very likely to be an advantage in on-average reaching more-correct beliefs. Feeling good about changing one’s mind instead of bad is going to lead to more belief changes, and those tend to lead toward truth.
Good points on the rationalist community being a bit insular. I don’t think about that much myself because I’ve never been involved with the bay area rationalist community, just LessWrong.
Agreed on all counts, except that a strong value on rationality seems very likely to be an advantage in on-average reaching more-correct beliefs. Feeling good about changing one’s mind instead of bad is going to lead to more belief changes, and those tend to lead toward truth.
Good points on the rationalist community being a bit insular. I don’t think about that much myself because I’ve never been involved with the bay area rationalist community, just LessWrong.