MBlume comments on What's in a name? That which we call a rationalist… - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 April 2009 05:13:04AM 2 points [-]

Some time ago I thought "Bayescrafter" but this word seemed moderately awful then and sounds worse now. I think I actually like x-rationalist better.

(The term beisu-tsukai is what I think "Bayes-user" or "Bayes-crafter" would sound like in Japanese, but I haven't checked this with a native speaker.)

Comment author: MBlume 25 April 2009 05:20:19AM 8 points [-]

eventually we're going to need to use these terms out loud -- x-rationalist sounds an awful lot like "former rationalist".