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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