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I hate almost everything about the Rational Man meme, but I especially hate the complete disdain for strong displays of emotion.
Give me wrath. Give me weeping. Give me love and indeed also hate.
Leave that cold-hearted shit to the gangster-politician-businessman cluster.
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I find it's more often code for rationalizing our many, immutable irrationalities.
When you construe your own irrationality as particularly rational, this rarely leads anywhere good...
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I don't mind stealing some ideas from dead people. Lot of smart, dead people.
But I agree the rationalist types often descend to ridiculous levels of mostly-foolish copycatting.
Also, secondarily, to LessWrong-type ideological inbredness. I don't much like that, either.