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knb comments on What is your rationalist backstory? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: knb 25 September 2015 09:54:50PM *  2 points [-]

I think it's just a disposition for the most part. I became an atheist fairly young and was linked to Overcoming Bias about 2006 and the worldview really "clicked" for me. (I personally shy away from the "rationalist" label because it seems a bit self-aggrandizing.)