Comment by KingKonu13 (kingkonu13) on The Martial Art of Rationality · 2025-02-23T01:04:02.051Z · LW · GW

Similarly, if you have a brain, with cortical and subcortical areas in the appropriate places, you might be able to learn to use it properly. If you’re a fast learner, you might learn faster—but the art of rationality isn’t about that; it’s about training brain machinery we all have in common. And where there are systematic errors human brains tend to make—like an insensitivity to scope—rationality is about fixing those mistakes, or finding work-arounds.

This is warmly egalitarian and quite welcoming to a wide range of intellects.