This event profoundly shaped our world, but it has never been explained clearly, afaik. My eggplant book tries; but only relatively briefly (~50 pages) because it’s just background to my actual topics. Wish I could recommend a good source instead.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/1108008134839320579 …
Yes, that's been very interesting to watch. More broadly, several others of the leaders of the Berkeley/LW rationalist community have moved beyond rationalism, and have explicitly said they wish they hadn't chosen "rationalism" as the name for their thing.