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I don’t know how people can unironically use self-congratulatory labels in general. I’d argue that there is a similar case for the word ‘progressive’ as used by liberals.
Rationalism has a specific meaning, but yeah, I’m not really sure why anybody would consider themselves rationalists in the sense of claiming that there is no way of studying the world other than rationalist ones (as opposed to, for example, empirical studies).
If that had an original specific meaning outside of billionaire-financed “LessWrong” jackoffs like Big Yud and his Harry Potter fanfic-based cult, that specific meaning’s been lost for some time now in contemporary use.
I don’t know how people can unironically use self-congratulatory labels in general. I’d argue that there is a similar case for the word ‘progressive’ as used by liberals.
The most glaring one to me is when tech billionaire worshipers call themselves capital-R “Rationalists.”
Rationalism has a specific meaning, but yeah, I’m not really sure why anybody would consider themselves rationalists in the sense of claiming that there is no way of studying the world other than rationalist ones (as opposed to, for example, empirical studies).
If that had an original specific meaning outside of billionaire-financed “LessWrong” jackoffs like Big Yud and his Harry Potter fanfic-based cult, that specific meaning’s been lost for some time now in contemporary use.