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TheAncientGeek comments on Terminology Thread (or "name that pattern") - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 July 2014 07:15:12PM *  1 point [-]

Rationality means more that one thing. One of the things it means is taking the pro-science, anti-god side in the Culture Wars. That may well be what it means when used as a binary.

Comment author: satt 14 July 2014 12:48:43AM 0 points [-]

Yes, people sometimes use "rational" to refer to that too. But using the word in that sense on LW has a much bigger risk of muddying the meaning of the term here, since the word's local canonical meaning is quite different.