Interesting that so many pro-vegan arguments (eg in https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9gb7tt/extrapolating_the_eat_beef_not_chicken_argument/e63flw0/ …) are intrinsically irrationalist, particularly juxtaposed against the usual rationalism.
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Replying to @St_Rev @sonyaellenmann
I wonder if tribal identity / loyalty comes first, and if 2/3 of that identity is rationalism™, then they perform the rituals of rationalism™, but when 1/3 of it is Berkeley liberalism, they perform those rituals instead ...and no contradiction bc in every case, identity wins?
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Replying to @MorlockP @sonyaellenmann
Well, the actual rationalists in there are doing Fermi estimation with intelligence-to-mass ratios. Just interesting to have the one vegan going 'but it's DISGUSTING don't you just want to PUKE here have some negatively-valenced ideation'
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Replying to @St_Rev @sonyaellenmann
yep there are real Catholics, real Rationalists, real ...
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