The Rationality Community Sucks
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Why I view the rationalist community as ACTIVELY HARMFUL
Epistemic status: angry and sarcastic rant about why I view the rationalist community as harmful. Comparing Down Standard Rationalist dinner conversation: Bob is talking about dumb people he met in his physics PhD in a fruitless attempt to address his insecurity, someone mentions a case of someone in the out-group being irrational, everyone laughs. A LessWrong post is brought up and everyone pretends to be productive for a while despite the opportunity cost making the whole discussion net negative. Joe brings up a new AI policy idea he’s been toying with in an attempt to boost his…
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related reading
- Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asteriskasteriskmag.com
- New LessWrongnewlesswrong.com
- Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?asteriskmag.substack.com
- LessWronglesswrong.com
- Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse — LessWronglesswrong.com
- What Do We Mean By "Rationality"? — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Shtetl-Optimized >> Blog Archive >> Guess I’m A Rationalist Nowscottaaronson.blog
- Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Dark Arts of Rationality — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Do people think Less Wrong rationality is parochial? — LessWronglesswrong.com
- You are not too "irrational" to know your preferences.forum.effectivealtruism.org
- Why Smart People Believe Stupid Thingsgurwinder.substack.com