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Identifying as a "rationalist" is encouraged by the welcome post.
Edited the most recent welcome post and the post of mine that it linked to.
Does anyone have a 1-syllable synonym for 'aspiring'? It seems like we need to impose better discipline on this for official posts.
Consider "how you came to aspire to rationality/be a rationalist" instead of "identify as an aspiring rationalist".
Or, can the identity language and switch to "how you came to be interested in rationality".
Looking at a thesaurus, "would-be" may be a suitable synonym.
Other alternatives include 'budding', or maybe 'keen'.
demirationalist - on one hand, something already above average, like in demigod. On the other, leaves the "not quite there" feeling. My second best was epirationalist
Didn't find anything better in my opinion, but in case you want to give it a (somewhat cheap) shot yourself... I just looped over this
FWIW, "aspiring rationalist" always sounded quite similar to "Aspiring Champion" to my ears.
That said, why do we need to use any syllables at all to say "aspiring rationalist" ? Do we have some sort of a secret rite or a trial that an aspiring rationalist must pass in order to become a true rationalist ? If I have to ask, does that mean, I'm not a rationalist ? :-/
The only thing I can think of is "na" e.g. in Dune, Feyd Rauthah was the "na-baron," meaning that he had been nominated to succeed the baron. (And in the story he certainly was aspiring to be Baron.)
Not quite what you are asking for but not too far either.
And the phrase "how you came to identify as a rationalist" links to the very page where in the comments Robin Hanson suggests not using the term "rationalist", and the alternative "aspiring rationalist" is suggested!