In terms of conversation style, I’d define a “rationalist” as someone who’s against non-factual objections to factual claims: “you’re not an expert”, “you’re motivated to say this”, “you’re friends with the wrong people”, “your claim has bad consequences” and so on. An intermediate stage would be “grudging rationalist”: someone who can refrain from using such objections if asked, but still listens to them, and relapses to using them when among non-rationalists.
“You’re not an expert” is a valid Bayesian objection, so I’d accept it. But it can be screened off with more direct evidence. I would be against it if someone persists in an objection that is no longer valid.
In terms of conversation style, I’d define a “rationalist” as someone who’s against non-factual objections to factual claims: “you’re not an expert”, “you’re motivated to say this”, “you’re friends with the wrong people”, “your claim has bad consequences” and so on. An intermediate stage would be “grudging rationalist”: someone who can refrain from using such objections if asked, but still listens to them, and relapses to using them when among non-rationalists.
“You’re not an expert” is a valid Bayesian objection, so I’d accept it. But it can be screened off with more direct evidence. I would be against it if someone persists in an objection that is no longer valid.
I’m not sure our definitions are the same, but they’re very highly correlated in my experience.