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I hate seeing all the blind negativity towards the rationalists, both because the general idea of improving structured thinking is good, and because there were

I hate seeing all the blind negativity towards the rationalists, both because the general idea of improving structured thinking is good, and because there were some great essays on Lesswrong and adjacent blogs over the years. People who can’t see that are blinded by their own bias. That said, the most interesting people and discussions seem to have moved on, and now it’s more of a social club. I haven’t read anything compelling from there for a long time. Adjacent bloggers like Scott still put out interesting writing, but their output has dropped significantly.

elendilm 8d ago
Good to know. Haven't been following them as I was busy with our work. I empathize with you on the sentiment of adversity against rationality but disagree on the implications. Usually sentences uttered by anyone contains compressed in it the state of the mind and the thought process leading upto it. Thus people blindly hating rationality makes it easy for us to decipher their state. Those who follow the cult worship likewise reveals their own state. So weild it as a weapon. Everybody is human and susceptible to be fallible. Truth doesn't care that it is Yudkowsky and hence true. So I wouldn't be bothered by the opinions of the masses. Hope this helps. Cheers.