> The #1 comment says that the rationality community is about "trying to reason about things from first principle", when if fact it is the opposite. Oh? Elieze

> The #1 comment says that the rationality community is about "trying to reason about things from first principle", when if fact it is the opposite. Oh? Eliezer Yudkowsky (the most prominent Rationalist) bragged about how he was able to figure out AI was dangerous (the most stark Rationalist claim) from "the null string as input."[1] [1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a-list-of-lethalities https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...