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Is this "evidence" one of those silly things that rationalists so much love to talk about?

Don't worry, HN commenters can figure out the truth about Yudkowsky's articles from the first principles. They have already figured out that EAs no longer care about curing malaria, despite https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities only being a Google search away.

At the end, they will give you a lecture about how everyone hates people who are smug and talk about things they have no clue about. The lecture will then get a lot of upvotes.






FWIW, I detest rationalist ideology. I was just curious if it was true, which post, and what was the edit.

Careful, curiosity about evidence is a gateway drug to rationality. ;)

I wish more people who detest rationalist ideology were curious about actual evidence.


What a ridiculous statement. As if captial-r Rationalists are the only people who care about evidence.



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