postrats are basically just rationalists who decided that the rational thing to do was to get therapy but then because they were rationalists decided they were much smarter than all the therapists and they should do it themselves instead.
I think there are a couple of things worth teasing apart: rationalism: catch all term, means about 10 different only vaguely related things with no common lineage rationalists: specific group of people with a lineage rooted in LW, though no longer centered there (cont)
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"rationalists are wrong about basically everything" - default position shared by most of the world "The rationalists have something interesting to say but I've kinda moved past that" - the postrationalist position.
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To the degree that there is a coherent set of postrationalist ideas, it is the set of ideas roughly shared in common knowledge among people who would describe themselves as postrationalist.
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