You kidding me? They're arguing for a long term trend reversing, and use an example contemporaneous with the trend beginning! There's literally no better source

You kidding me? They're arguing for a long term trend reversing, and use an example contemporaneous with the trend beginning! There's literally no better source to use. The trend tracks with my experience. I (with influence from my parents) caught the tail end of the academic rational movement, was over it by the time it moved online as lesswrong and EA, and like to think I'm at least a bit ahead of the curve on the counter-swing.