wife: why do SF people like describing themselves as rationalists? me: idk wife: but they do, right? more so than rationalists anywhere else? me: maybe their parents were hippies and this is (or was?) their way of rebelling
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Replying to @visakanv
I just thought that's where the rationalist scene started
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Replying to @visakanv @uberstuber
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Rationalist_movement … I'm actually shocked you're not familiar with the source material, you are solidly in a rationalist-adjacent Twitter bubble. As others have said, it's not an SF thing - I think you just stumbled into a particular bubble somehow.
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if I had to summarize rationalists, it would be "people who want to get good at predicting the future" at various scales. like, rationality is supposed to be about seeing so clearly that you win at your goals. So it covers a lot areas - cognitive psychology, statistics, etc.
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though, getting good in any area means getting good at prediction ('cause that's what brains do), so you see rationality branch off into every direction. The areas cited in the above tweet are the meta-areas, really.
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