I do think rationalists do this mental move a lot more than other people I know.
That’s a very different claim than the one in the OP. The one in the OP is about lack of diversity of mental moves and not just a claim about engaging in coolly modeling being a mental move that rationalists are capable of doing well and do frequently.
This seems to presume that a certain literal interpretation of that text is the only one that could be intended or interpreted. I don’t think this is worth discussing this further, so leaving it at that.
That’s a very different claim than the one in the OP. The one in the OP is about lack of diversity of mental moves and not just a claim about engaging in coolly modeling being a mental move that rationalists are capable of doing well and do frequently.
This seems to presume that a certain literal interpretation of that text is the only one that could be intended or interpreted. I don’t think this is worth discussing this further, so leaving it at that.