I’m not very worried about people remaining attached to the old term because nobody was ever attached to the old term.
I remember Eliezer saying he doesn’t love the term and doesn’t remember there ever being a decision to adopt it; most real ones put “aspiring” on the front, recognizing problems mentioned; a lot of living rationalist-adjacent communities have started calling themselves “post-rationalists” in explicit rejection of the term; and objectively speaking, most of the people in the world who flatly identify as “rationalists” haven’t read the any yudkowsky at all (seems to be most popular among skeptics operating in very religious regions, increasingly rare in the west).
I’m not very worried about people remaining attached to the old term because nobody was ever attached to the old term.
I remember Eliezer saying he doesn’t love the term and doesn’t remember there ever being a decision to adopt it; most real ones put “aspiring” on the front, recognizing problems mentioned; a lot of living rationalist-adjacent communities have started calling themselves “post-rationalists” in explicit rejection of the term; and objectively speaking, most of the people in the world who flatly identify as “rationalists” haven’t read the any yudkowsky at all (seems to be most popular among skeptics operating in very religious regions, increasingly rare in the west).