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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by TheAncientGeek on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:05AM (#44336910)
But rationalism , if the modern sort, isn't supposed to be descriptive, it's supposed to be normative -- rationality lets you win.
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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by lisper on Saturday June 21, 2025 @10:20AM (#44337813)
The problem is not with rationalism, it's with Rationalism (with a capital R), the cult-like phenomenon that has grown up around rationalism that fetishizes things like Bayes's theorem, hostile AI, Roko's basilisk, and the MWI.
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