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		nearbuy 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Dilbert Afterlife You're (understandably) confusing rationalism the philosophy from the Enlightenment with the unrelated modern rationalist community. For what it's worth, the modern rationalists are pro-empiricism with Yudkowsky including it as one of the 12 core virtues of rationality.

b450 7 days ago [–]

Oh! :) I saw "philosophy" and "rationalism" in the same paragraph and went into auto-pilot I suppose.

jefftk 7 days ago | [–]

It's pretty unfortunate that the Yudkowsky-and-LessWrong crowd picked a term that traditionally meant something so different. This has been confusing people since at least 2011.

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