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I'm subscribed to a wide variety of political subreddits, but usually if I see a post and read the comments and go "yeah that sounds reasonable" I scroll up and the sub is typically r/libertarian. I've got libertarianitus and I'm enjoying it.

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"that sounds reasonable" has very limited use in politics, and most (not all) rationalists (and libertarians) are politically quite terrible and terrifying

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like... in your experience? or are you referring to data? cause in my experience it's been the opposite.

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Both experience and clear perception. There are limits to the effectiveness of logical reasoning and empiricism in the humanities. Idk about you but rationalists tend not to recognize that people's behaviour and existence can't and don't need to be justified, for example.

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I'm hesitant whenever anybody claims 'clear perception.' I generally agree there's limits of logical reasoning and this is a rationalist failure mode. This also doesn't really describe most rationalists I know (and i live in the bay in a big rat group house)

1:10 AM · Nov 25, 2019

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Rationalist confirmation bias minimizes the rationalists' awareness of the pervasiveness of the limits and absurdity of reason and goal orientation, unfortunately

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maybe? I'm not sure how involved you're in in the community. I definitely think there are sections of the community that have the failure you described; other sections talk a lot about it and are branching into other things.

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