Rationality as martial art

A metaphor for rationality as the martial art of mind; training brains in the same fashion as muscles.

The metaphor is intended to have complex connotations, rather than being strictly positive. Do modern-day martial arts suffer from being insufficiently tested in realistic fighting, and do attempts at rationality training run into the same problem?

Blog posts

• The Martial Art of Rationality
• A Sense That More Is Possible
• Epistemic Viciousness
• 3 Levels of Rationality Verification
• Mandatory Secret Identities
• Whining-Based Communities
• In What Ways Have You Become Stronger? by Vladimir Nesov
• Rational Me or We? by Robin Hanson
• Individual Rationality is a Matter of Life and Death by patrissimo

See also

• Problem of verifying rationality
• Rationality
• Group rationality
• Rationality is systematized winning
• No safe defense

References

• Gillian Russell (2008). Epistemic Viciousness in the Martial Arts.  (PDF)