... that is not rationality that is a mild infohazard trying to hack you into taking actions that make people starve.

Exactly.

Seriously why would you post that as a rationality quote.

Because many people in the LW sphere seem to love the same ideas in better and more refined wrapping! See the aforementioned Caplan, Anissimov, etc for just a couple of famous ones.

(Oh, and Vladimir_M, who before his departure also often provided respectability to awful shit, like rampant anti-feminism, demonizing people on welfare, etc. He's probably my most hated high-karma poster here.)