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I've "deleted" the post, given your criticism, and that (judging from the number of upvotes on Manfred's comment at this point) a large number of readers apparently consider the post and/or followup comments to be ridiculous. I'm not really sure why though. It doesn't seem obviously crazy to provide information about the rationality benefits of some hobbies that would-be rationalist can take into account, along with other costs and benefits, while choosing hobbies.
Perhaps the title, "Rationalist Hobbies", gives the impression that I and others are recommending hobbies that every rationalist should have? If so, maybe I should have just renamed the post to "Rationality Benefits of Various Hobbies"?
That was unnecessary, given the post's current score of +7. If all those people who upvoted Manfred really disapproved of the post (as opposed to lauding a display of wit), they could have voted it down to -28.
I don't have any problem with the post itself, its title, or most comments; and in fact I don't think your proposed title change would have "helped" one bit with folks like Manfred or cousin_it, since the idea of exploiting hobbies for their rationality benefits seems to be precisely what they find ridiculous.