I also was a rationalist before Eliezer, but of Eric’s four sources of information the only one I shared is science fiction. I had the advantage of growing up in a family where the relevance of reason to the world was taken for granted.
At one point, long after I had become an adult, my parents asked me whether it would have been better if they had brought me up in their parents’ (Jewish) religion. I replied that I preferred having been brought up in the one they believed in — 18th century rationalism, the ideology of Adam Smith and David Hume.
I also was a rationalist before Eliezer, but of Eric’s four sources of information the only one I shared is science fiction. I had the advantage of growing up in a family where the relevance of reason to the world was taken for granted.
At one point, long after I had become an adult, my parents asked me whether it would have been better if they had brought me up in their parents’ (Jewish) religion. I replied that I preferred having been brought up in the one they believed in — 18th century rationalism, the ideology of Adam Smith and David Hume.