Last night I tried to describe the rationalist community to a friend who had never heard of it. I struggled, but finally settled on describing it as "A school of philosophy that arose on the internet rather than in the academy."
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I'd probably go over the "pillars" as it were: - morality: utilitarianism - metaphysics: reductionism - epistemology: propabilistic - free will: deterministic Etc etc
oh yeah it’s good to get concrete (or as concrete as this abstraction-prone endeavor allows us ;)
