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I note that in pursuit of rationality, you throw morality overboard. I would point out that most people "with experience of the world" value morality more highly than rationality, and that your advice would strike them as "one of those Western things."

To elaborate, check out Jonathan Haidt in http://faculty.virginia.edu... (copy link, I don't know this interface's version of html), or check out the research generally at http://people.virginia.edu/...

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@M Webster

The OSCON07 talk is just key - sorry for the typo. The full link (damn you, Typepad!) is http://blip.tv/file/318231/

No, the disagreement paper doesn't really accompany Robin's speech, but is its background.

"I desire only to know the truth. . . .And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same. . . .I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."

Socrates, The Gorgias

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