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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Lol in my case my parents weren’t hippies. I do like describing myself as a rationalist though!
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In the ancient times there was a site called lesswrong that spawned all these people from the Bayesian earth. Many converged upon the city of Frisco where they learned to go to Burning Man to discuss Harry Potter. They came to be known as the Rationalists.



