Reason is only one of several evolved mental faculties, and treating it as the gold standard misdescribes how people decide.

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• Reasoning is not taught to a model by people: it emerges from reinforcement learning on questions with checkable answers, with no human preference data at all. NLNathan Lambert3 Feb 2025
• If a chain of reasoning rests on a wrong inherited recipe, the conclusions built on top of it will be just as wrong. TUTim Urban6 Nov 2015
• Humanity's advantage is accumulated shared knowledge rather than higher intelligence — and AI models, which vanish with their context window, have none of it. NBNoam Brown26 Jun 2026
• In a world where it's impossible to make purely moral decisions in everything we do, we should all recognize where we're making trade-offs and not try to paint ourselves as being purely logical. MBMatt Birchler14 Oct 2026
• The gap between chimps and humans is no evidence that a small increase in compute yields an explosion of capability, because evolution was not optimising chimps for technology. PCPaul Christiano24 Feb 2018

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