Emotions are good. Politeness is bimodal. 'Informality is friendly' and 'informality is creepy' are the ground states. Jokes reframe wrongness as funnyness; the Rationalism movement looks, from the real outside, like a bunch of supremely edgy computer cultists.

This is why it was a really bad idea to frame knowledge of statistics as a conspiracy thing. If you think of your better judgement as a secret hat, then you will dedicate resources to keeping how smart you are a secret.

You are, presumably, a rational actor. But who are you, generically? What are the outer limits of your selfhood? Are you satisfied with them? Why or why not?

Discuss.