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The failure of the rationalist community is they mistook rationalization for rationality.
by ModernMech 7mo ago
The failure of the rationalist community is they mistook rationalization for rationality.
- DonHopkins 7mo agoWhy make better predictions, when you can make better excuses, and be wrong in much more sophisticated ways?
- uoaei 7mo agoI may use different definitions than you, but I put it as "they conflate rationality and reason".
- lo_zamoyski 7mo agoIt really is a sad, provincial spectacle. Reminds me of the embarrassing "movement" where people called themselves "Brights". I expect we'll soon have a new movement called "The Smart People". A weird synthesis of the goofy, the immature, the delusional, and the grandiose shot through with mental illness.