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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by stickfigure on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:46PM (#44321358)
> They don't really ever show a sense of "hey, I've got a thought, maybe I haven't considered all angles to it, maybe I'm wrong - but here it is".

Have you ever read Scott Alexander's blog (Slate Star Codex, now Astral Codex X)? It's full of doubt and self-questioning. The guy even keeps a public list of his mistakes:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mistakes

I'll admit my only touchpoint to the "rationalist community" is this blog, but I sure don't get "full of themselves" from that. Quite the contrary.

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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by TheAncientGeek on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:33AM (#44328094)
Well, you can get it from LessWrong and , even mire, Yudkowsky. Rationalism has overall and orthodox wings
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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by TheAncientGeek on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:03AM (#44336898)
Liberal and orthodox.
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