Marginalium

Rationalist blog publishes article telling rationalists not to rationalise away the bad vibes some people give out. I love these guys. As I say elsewhere, they’re a bit too worried about bias in thinking. Their online hub is called ‘LessWrong’. They are very committed to making decisions absent emotions (or something, lots of definitional things are heavily litigated there). Now, I don’t know how representative this article is of Rationalists more broadly, because I don’t live there. But it’s what I’d expect from them. It really does feel like they’re just rediscovering all the stuff we already know, and one of these things is that you can rationalise anything. That doesn’t put it under any obligation to be true. Like ignoring bad vibes.