Our eyes are bigger than our stomachs - Sarah’s Substack
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A slightly salty critique of rationalism and adjacent cultures.
There is an interconnected set of communities that I interact with regularly on and offline – rationalism, Effective Altruism, AI safety, Progress Studies, and so on. These communities have many common members and many common beliefs, but are of course importantly distinct in ways that I don’t feel like elucidating here. I could probably do a more comprehensive analysis of this bundle and produce a nice Venn diagram, but this would take up undue space, so I exercise my authorial sovereignty and decide not to. Sorry. What is the underlying belief or value that links these communities? I…
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