Hm. So I think if you define reasoning broadly -- as in collecting relevant data, enumerating and raking priorities, thinking through expected consequences... p

Hm. So I think if you define reasoning broadly -- as in collecting relevant data, enumerating and raking priorities, thinking through expected consequences... people do engage in this quite often in all areas of life, far more often than lesswrongers would credit. If you define it more narrowly, as in using particular techniques that are popular to talk about in that community like bayes theorem, updating priors and so on-- then indeed it's not common but it's also not practiced by practically any of the community members. I would say that there is a mix of both definitions in use in those communities, but for the former people already do it often and for the latter not even the lesswrongers do (with a few exceptions).