That's true, but it doesn't really have much to do with my points:
* Common (current) culture around rationalism fantasizes about the human using it being able to choose the best course of action in every situation (and examples to the contrary are typically full of woo-woo about human emotions and souls). This is computationally impossible for the brain.
* Hacker-news-audience-types will often discard important nuance on a topic in order to reduce it to something that can easily be rationalized about.
If historical cultures may have "suffered" from the same delusions, it would be more interesting to see how my points did or didn't apply than saying that they existed.
* Common (current) culture around rationalism fantasizes about the human using it being able to choose the best course of action in every situation (and examples to the contrary are typically full of woo-woo about human emotions and souls). This is computationally impossible for the brain.
* Hacker-news-audience-types will often discard important nuance on a topic in order to reduce it to something that can easily be rationalized about.
If historical cultures may have "suffered" from the same delusions, it would be more interesting to see how my points did or didn't apply than saying that they existed.