I don’t have any examples ready at hand. It tends to be a pattern I see in people who strike me as somehow new to the concept of “rationalism”, people who just read the sequences and are excited to tell everyone about how they’re ingroup now.
I get the sense that the rationalist vibe involves downregulating brain networks that implement important decision theory, because of not having an explicit description available that explains why those systems are key to the human {genome+memeplex}’s approximate learned decision theory
Do you have any favorite examples of the straw vulcan thing?
I don’t have any examples ready at hand. It tends to be a pattern I see in people who strike me as somehow new to the concept of “rationalism”, people who just read the sequences and are excited to tell everyone about how they’re ingroup now.
I dunno. wait, maybe I could cite this comment by tropicalfruit as having the kind of vibe I’m thinking of: “oh no, are emotions truly useless? is morality fake?”—an understandable question, but still! https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z4Rp6oBtYceZm7Q8s/what-do-you-think-is-wrong-with-rationalist-culture?commentId=HkKjobkvT6sfvRnG2
I get the sense that the rationalist vibe involves downregulating brain networks that implement important decision theory, because of not having an explicit description available that explains why those systems are key to the human {genome+memeplex}’s approximate learned decision theory