I agree that not all rationalists would want wireheaded chickens, maybe they don’t care about chicken suffering at all. I also agree that you sometimes see bad logic and non-sequiters in the rationalist community. The non rationalist, motivated, emotion driven thinking, is the way that humans think by default. The rationalist community is trying to think a different way, sometimes successfully. Illustrating a junior rationalist having an off day and doing something stupid doesn’t illuminate the concept of rationality, the way that seeing a beginner juggler drop balls doesn’t show you what juggling is.
I agree that not all rationalists would want wireheaded chickens, maybe they don’t care about chicken suffering at all. I also agree that you sometimes see bad logic and non-sequiters in the rationalist community. The non rationalist, motivated, emotion driven thinking, is the way that humans think by default. The rationalist community is trying to think a different way, sometimes successfully. Illustrating a junior rationalist having an off day and doing something stupid doesn’t illuminate the concept of rationality, the way that seeing a beginner juggler drop balls doesn’t show you what juggling is.