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		TheAncientGeek 87 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guess I'm a rationalist now But rationalism , if the modern sort, isn't supposed to be descriptive, it's supposed to be normative -- rationality lets you win.

lisper 87 days ago [–]

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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