Normal_Anomaly comments on Son of Shit Rationalists Say - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Eneasz 01 June 2012 01:47PM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 01 June 2012 05:11:42PM 26 points [-]

If I was going to be rude, I'd say it was a rationalist who'd been hit in the head with a post. But I'm not going to endorse that statement.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 01 June 2012 05:17:22PM 0 points [-]

Note that some people who are called "post-rationalist" are highly respected by almost all members of the LessWrong community.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 01 June 2012 05:21:08PM 4 points [-]

Cool, who?

Full disclosure: I actually have no idea what a post-rationalist is. I was just making fun of your sample quotes and I can't resist an opportunity to make a bad pun.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 01 June 2012 05:24:41PM 3 points [-]

E.g., Nick Tarleton, Peter de Blanc.

I appreciated the pun.

Comment author: gjm 02 June 2012 10:26:54AM 25 points [-]

I hereby declare that "gugglefweeps" mean people like Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, me, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Johann Sebastian Bach. It's great being a gugglefweep.

Less obliquely: Where does this term "post-rationalist" come from, who applies it to all these people, and is there meant to be any sort of suggestion that there's much in common between the thinking of the people allegedly described by it? (From what you've said so far, there's little reason to think there is.)