I really appreciate this comment. Now in my 30s, I was not even aware of EA or Rationalist groups in my 20s but your description of a person high on the smell of their own farts and putting logic as king was me. The world is so chaotic that it felt good and right that I could lean on something "true" like logic. It took me to the "correct" answers according to logic but very misguided answers as I see them now. Humans are driven by emotions and the world is probabilistic so relying so heavily on logic just seems so misguided now that I'm older.
By the way, "the world is probabilistic" is one of the key lessons of the rationality community. (Infinite certainty would require infinite amount of evidence, according to the Bayes' Theorem.) When you find someone on internet trying to assign probabilities to their beliefs, chances are you have met a rationalist.
