Vladimir_Golovin comments on My concerns about the term 'rationalist' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 04 June 2009 04:03:51PM 1 point [-]

I still hesitate to apply the term "rationalist" to myself and others -- after all the time I spent on LW, the term still feels monolithic to me for some reason. When I use it, I almost always find myself mentally expanding it into something like "one who seeks to attain an accurate map of reality" and/or "one who is able to efficiently steer the future into desired regions".