Thank you for the link! Very little about the "rationalists" subculture made sense to me until someone proposed that a significant chunk of it may be based on d

Thank you for the link! Very little about the "rationalists" subculture made sense to me until someone proposed that a significant chunk of it may be based on deflection: there are so much real pain in the world today that it might be convenient to be able to ignore all of that and worry about a non-existent issue.