Eugine_Nier comments on Summary of "The Straw Vulcan" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 December 2011 02:48:04AM 2 points [-]

there does seem to be a popular misconception that rationalists or rational people or both act like Spock.

I suspect there a reasonable amount of truth to this belief. At least I suspect Spock was a reasonable caricature of the type of self-proclaimed "rational people" prevalent during the 50s and 60s.