Sure, but I feel like the actual conversation in all of these posts is about whether “the rationalist philosophy works as a tool for winning”, and at least measured by conventional success metrics, the answer is “yes, overwhelmingly so, as far as I can tell”. I agree there is an annoying word-game here that people play with a specific phrase that was intended to convey something else, but the basic question seems like one worth asking for every community one is part of, or philosophy one adopts.
Sure, but I feel like the actual conversation in all of these posts is about whether “the rationalist philosophy works as a tool for winning”, and at least measured by conventional success metrics, the answer is “yes, overwhelmingly so, as far as I can tell”. I agree there is an annoying word-game here that people play with a specific phrase that was intended to convey something else, but the basic question seems like one worth asking for every community one is part of, or philosophy one adopts.