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You're (understandably) confusing rationalism the philosophy from the Enlightenment with the unrelated modern rationalist community. For what it's worth, the m
by nearbuy 9mo ago
You're (understandably) confusing rationalism the philosophy from the Enlightenment with the unrelated modern rationalist community.
For what it's worth, the modern rationalists are pro-empiricism with Yudkowsky including it as one of the 12 core virtues of rationality.
- b450 9mo agoOh! :) I saw "philosophy" and "rationalism" in the same paragraph and went into auto-pilot I suppose.
- jefftk 9mo agoIt's pretty unfortunate that the Yudkowsky-and-LessWrong crowd picked a term that traditionally meant something so different. This has been confusing people since at least 2011.