For the past year, I’ve used “rationalist” to mean “person who has made a serious study of truthseeking skills”, and used “LessWrong folk” or “Berkeley Rationality Community” or other more specific names to refer to the second group
That sounds good, but also most outsiders are still going to refer to us as “the rationalists“.
Which is not to say that we can do anything about that, or that we ought to try and change how other people refer to the groups to which we belong.
I didn’t think of ‘what others call us’ as the topic of this post, and think it’s much harder to change.
Fair point.
For the past year, I’ve used “rationalist” to mean “person who has made a serious study of truthseeking skills”, and used “LessWrong folk” or “Berkeley Rationality Community” or other more specific names to refer to the second group
That sounds good, but also most outsiders are still going to refer to us as “the rationalists“.
Which is not to say that we can do anything about that, or that we ought to try and change how other people refer to the groups to which we belong.
I didn’t think of ‘what others call us’ as the topic of this post, and think it’s much harder to change.
Fair point.