One thing that's always struck me about rationalists is that a large fraction just seem to be missing their amygdalas. So much so that you could fairly gloss postrationalism as "the rediscovery of the wisdom of the hindbrain".
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A missing amygdala is great for intellectual spelunking, not as great for recognizing that the shining reflection in the dark forest is in fact a pair of hungry eyes.
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I mean this literally. I can think of several friends who are forever getting themselves into scary situations because their threat-detectors just don't go off.
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the rationalist and EA ecosystems select massively for recruiting people (~nerds with poor social skills) who are confused in specific highly correlated ways about e.g. feelings, the body, etc., and these people are, to put it bluntly, very vulnerable to abuse
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