> Calling yourself a rationalist means, basically, that you're a virtue-ethicist who considers rationality to be a virtue What? No! Yudkowsky, at least, follow

> Calling yourself a rationalist means, basically, that you're a virtue-ethicist who considers rationality to be a virtue What? No! Yudkowsky, at least, follows utilitarian ethics and argues for _instrumental_ rationality. The utilitarianism sets the goals, and the rationality is about finding the strategy to fulfill them.