https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/if-you-can-be-bad-you-can-also-be Support the author Scott Alexander on Substack. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ Spotted on Reddit about the rationalist community: I like the culture while hating a lot of the specifics...however[,] there is no such thing as "rationality" that is free from ideology. I've got to admit, I hate this argument. Also related ones, like: "They say we're politicizing this scientific field. But no science is inherently apolitical. There are political assumptions wrapped up with everything we do." Or: "They say we're 'biased', but there's no such thing as a view-from-nowhere objectivity that doesn't import any assumptions. Everyone's biased, we're just not trying to deny it like they are."
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