Hey! My name’s Jared and I’m a senior in high school. I guess I started being a “rationalist” a couple months ago (or a bit more) when I started looking at the list of cognitive biases on Wikipedia. I’ve tried very hard to mitigate almost all of them as much as I can and I plan on furthering myself down this path. I’ve read a lot of the sequences on here and I like to read a lot of rationalwiki and I also try to get information from many different sources.
As for my views, I am first a rationalist and make sure I am open to changing my mind about ANYTHING because reality doesn’t change on your ability to stomach it.
As for labels, I’m vegan (or at least strict vegetarian), anarcho-communist (something around the range of left libertarian), agnostic (not in the sense that I’m on the fence but that I’m sure that we don’t know—so militant agnostic lol).
My main first question is, since you guy are rationalists, why aren’t you vegetarian or vegan? The percentage that is vegetarian on sites like lesswrong and rationalwiki is hardly higher than the public (or seems so). I would think considering you are rationalists you would understand vegetarian or veganism and go for it for sure. Am I missing something because this actually blows my mind? If you oppose it, I really wanna hear some arguments because I’ve never heard a single even somewhat convincing argument and I’ve argued with oh so many people about it. Obviously goal of veganism is to lessen suffering not end it etc.
But yeah hey!
Hey! My name’s Jared and I’m a senior in high school. I guess I started being a “rationalist” a couple months ago (or a bit more) when I started looking at the list of cognitive biases on Wikipedia. I’ve tried very hard to mitigate almost all of them as much as I can and I plan on furthering myself down this path. I’ve read a lot of the sequences on here and I like to read a lot of rationalwiki and I also try to get information from many different sources.
As for my views, I am first a rationalist and make sure I am open to changing my mind about ANYTHING because reality doesn’t change on your ability to stomach it.
As for labels, I’m vegan (or at least strict vegetarian), anarcho-communist (something around the range of left libertarian), agnostic (not in the sense that I’m on the fence but that I’m sure that we don’t know—so militant agnostic lol).
My main first question is, since you guy are rationalists, why aren’t you vegetarian or vegan? The percentage that is vegetarian on sites like lesswrong and rationalwiki is hardly higher than the public. I would think considering you are rationalists you would understand vegetarian or veganism and go for it for sure. Am I missing something because this actually blows my mind? If you oppose it, I really wanna hear some arguments because I’ve never heard a single even somewhat convincing argument and I’ve argued with oh so many people about it. Obviously goal of veganism is to lessen suffering not end it etc.
But yeah hey!