Do you consider yourself to be part of the rationalist community (a 'rationalist')?
- Yes21.7%
- rat-adjacent (eg. postrat17.5%
- No, but am familiar w/ em36.9%
- No, and am not familiar23.9%
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Being rational is really cool, being “a rationalist” is kind of cringe ngl
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If I was it'd be an irrational commitment towards some set of ideas that I'd use after the fact to explain why I am, like I do to explain why I'm not. I only like the part where God delivers the faculty of reason through a Creationist scheme that leads to our ultimate uniformity.
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The idea of identification with a form of thinking as an in-group/out-group ("I'm rational but everyone else isn't") is just dumb and cult-like.
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Humans are adept having a emotional reaction then Justifying Ex post facto.
Someone maybe a rationalist when it comes to religion, but they are irrational about something else.
Most likely in the political realm.
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I trust my capacity to reason and I know it's the only tool at anyone's disposal to make sense of the world. Most of my friends are the same. We're not a community, we don't think much about it, it's so obvious.
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How do you want me to vote if I consider myself a "rationalist" in that I apply many principles from the Sequences to my life, but am not part of the "community" in that I have spent maybe 5 minutes TOTAL of my life in the presence of another rationalist?
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A rather difficult question. By some criteria I am clearly "in" but by others I am clearly "adjacent" (I chose adjacent)
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I like the thinking, but have never been involved with folks calling themselves that.
Are the demographics highly male?