Look, it's just an internet community of people who write blog posts and discuss their interests on web forums.
Asking "What do they do?" is like asking "What do Hackernewsers do?"
It's not exactly a coherent question. Rationalists are a somewhat tighter group, but in the end the point stands. They write and discuss their common interests, e.g. the progress of AI, psychiatry stuff, bayesianism, thought experiments, etc.
Asking "What do they do?" is like asking "What do Hackernewsers do?"
It's not exactly a coherent question. Rationalists are a somewhat tighter group, but in the end the point stands. They write and discuss their common interests, e.g. the progress of AI, psychiatry stuff, bayesianism, thought experiments, etc.