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32 Post author: wobster109 07 May 2013 02:27AM

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 07 May 2013 01:59:21PM 16 points [-]

There are a few reasons I don't go around introducing myself as a rationalist. One of them is that I have a pretty good idea of the sort of person who would go around introducing themselves as a rationalist, and I don't want to be stood next to them when people are making assumptions.

Comment author: DaFranker 07 May 2013 02:29:22PM *  4 points [-]

IME this [link removed, this was not the intended target page] is the kind of person who goes around introducing themselves as a rationalist.

In other words, "shed your emotions, the Scientific Method is wrong, all spirituality and happiness are wrong, let us all derive the Ultimate Truth from nothing!".

(yes, I've met several people like this)

Indeed, you do not want to be lumped in the same basket as them in other peoples' mental heuristics.