alt Hacker NewsSeriously, the so called rationalists seem to be working very hard to be as weird as possible. Some sort of pathological contrarianism.
Seriously, the so called rationalists seem to be working very hard to be as weird as possible. Some sort of pathological contrarianism.
They know they are rational because they are rationalists. If they decide an idea is good it must be rational.
Before any of their defenders(and I’m including e/acc and most of TESCREAL in this criticism) come at me about how much introspection they do and how they constantly try to question their theories or be LessWrong you’ll have to explain things like prediction markets, Bankman-Fried, or the litany of other warped ideas coming out of this group that are causing harm to society.