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I actually disagree; the "Rationality" tagline is highly appropriate, especially as the singularitarians here are devoted to rational thought processes anyway in AI research.
I would, however, like to point out that the site seems to get mixed up with other groups as well:
"RationalWiki" - the highly politically partisan pro-science web page (kind of an opponent to LW, apparently.
Rationalism (philosophy) - Spinoza, Leibniz, Descartes (but they pretty much ignored empiricism so they have little to do with LW thinking)
Rationalism (Ayn Rand) - the worst kind. LW isn't a social-engineering organization, especially one committed to absolute "rational" selfishness.
So the tagline is good, but we should try not to get mixed up with those groups.
Ayn Rand's philosophy is actually "Objectivism," not "Rationalism."
Yeah I know, but when I talk to people about rationality they're often like, "Don't be like Ayn Rand." I think there's been a post about it somewhere.
Guardians of Ayn Rand.
I suspect that one cause is that they get confused for LW and vice versa!
Another might be the Bayes vs. science thing.