Internet rationalists are funny because they aren’t interested in reasoning well, they’re all about reasoning better, with the implication that anything that’s

Internet rationalists are funny because they aren’t interested in reasoning well, they’re all about reasoning better, with the implication that anything that’s been previously thought out has been thought out incorrectly. It’s a group where you can prove you have the most biggest smartest genious brain by just making shit up and it attracts people that feel an urgent need to be regarded as intelligent by strangers, which is a need that’s… generally disconnected from intelligence in any tangible way.