> There is something deeply toxic that has infected our community. I am still not quite able to see it in its entirety, though I can see its edges and when peop

> There is something deeply toxic that has infected our community. I am still not quite able to see it in its entirety, though I can see its edges and when people get infected by it its obvious. I think SlateStarCodex(!) said it well, recently: > Rationalists wasted years worrying about various named biases, like the conjunction fallacy or the planning fallacy. But most of the problems we really care about aren’t any of those. They’re more like whatever makes the global warming skeptic fail to connect with all the evidence for global warming. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/26/mental-mountains/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/26/mental-mountains/