CellBioGuy comments on Why are people "put off by rationality"? - Less Wrong
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Additionally, many people who call themselves 'rationalists' are, in my experience, just using the term to justify their own ideas whatever they are and dismiss those of others as automatically 'irrational'.
this is actually related to my pet theory that, at least in signalling status terms, it is better to call one's self "aspiring rationalist" rather than "rationalist" full stop.
The problem with that is that the first is longer, less concise, and more awkward to use :-/