The whole first section is unnecessary—tedious background, meta-hand-wringing, self-conscious tiptoeing in the extreme, etc.
The second section is all applause lights and/or stuff we already know. (We run on corrupted hardware—really?)
The third section is the one part with interesting substance—it points out that we can’t agree to disagree yet LW disagrees on politics, so some group of people are probably wrong. It’s also possible that people have different values. We can’t agree to disagree on facts, but we can on values.
“X-rationalist”—where does that term come from?
Last two paragraphs are platitudes and applause lights.
The term x-rationalist is generally used to describe LessWrong Rationalists, in the style of Eliezer Yudkowsky. X-rationalists is used to differentiate from other “ordinary” Rationalists, such as the atheist Rationalist Community, etc.
Frankly, I have no idea where the term originated from. It seems to pop up every once in a while on LW, though.
The whole first section is unnecessary—tedious background, meta-hand-wringing, self-conscious tiptoeing in the extreme, etc.
The second section is all applause lights and/or stuff we already know. (We run on corrupted hardware—really?)
The third section is the one part with interesting substance—it points out that we can’t agree to disagree yet LW disagrees on politics, so some group of people are probably wrong. It’s also possible that people have different values. We can’t agree to disagree on facts, but we can on values.
“X-rationalist”—where does that term come from?
Last two paragraphs are platitudes and applause lights.
Thanks for trying! I hope that was gentle enough.
Thanks for the feedback.
The term x-rationalist is generally used to describe LessWrong Rationalists, in the style of Eliezer Yudkowsky. X-rationalists is used to differentiate from other “ordinary” Rationalists, such as the atheist Rationalist Community, etc.
Frankly, I have no idea where the term originated from. It seems to pop up every once in a while on LW, though.
X-Rationalist sounds pretty stupid to me, I’m glad it’s not mentioned often. Just use rationalist if you need to, everyone knows what you mean.
Yvain gave it a stipulative definition here.