I think disdain for the state of the world is an interesting rationalist vice, as something that is healthy in moderation and destructive in extremis.
However I don’t currently see it as happening as much as the ones above, or as damagingly. One might think of the foolish Zizians, but I think their hatred for the world comes more from leftist philosophy / animal rights background, than from rationalist vices. Their rationalist vices look more like their endless and inaccurate writing about hemispheres.
I don’t agree on book reviews FWIW. I think the counterfactual is that most people don’t read a book, and that a book review is, if done well, a successful 80⁄20 of the book. I think of book reviews as positive way that rationalists en-masse engage with parts of the world outside of their worldview.
I think disdain for the state of the world is an interesting rationalist vice, as something that is healthy in moderation and destructive in extremis.
However I don’t currently see it as happening as much as the ones above, or as damagingly. One might think of the foolish Zizians, but I think their hatred for the world comes more from leftist philosophy / animal rights background, than from rationalist vices. Their rationalist vices look more like their endless and inaccurate writing about hemispheres.
I don’t agree on book reviews FWIW. I think the counterfactual is that most people don’t read a book, and that a book review is, if done well, a successful 80⁄20 of the book. I think of book reviews as positive way that rationalists en-masse engage with parts of the world outside of their worldview.