A metaphor for rationality as the martial art of the 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

References

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