Why don’t we have an Art of Rationality? Third, because current “rationalists” have trouble working in groups: of this I shall speak more. Second, because it is hard to verify success in training, or which of two schools is the stronger. But first, because people lack the sense that rationality is something that should be systematized and trained and tested like a martial art, that should have as much knowledge behind it as nuclear engineering, whose superstars should practice as hard as chess grandmasters, whose successful practitioners should be surrounded by an evident aura of awesome.
