Vulture comments on Rationality Quotes April 2014 - LessWrong
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Gratuitous image + obscure reference + anti-deathism not firewalled from rationalism = downvote, sorry.
I second theruf's "what". The card reads like anti-deathism, not deathism. (Also, what the heck does "not firewalled from rationalism" mean?)
Sorry, I was being jargony. See Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational.
Quite right. Whoops. I'll go fix that now...
Ah.
This is why I'm a big fan of the Yudkowskian practice of turning all instances of jargon in the text (or at least, the first appearance of any jargony term in a post) into a link to the relevant post/etc.
The term "rationalism" has a previously-established meaning quite different from LW-style rationality.
IMO."freethinker" captures the intended reference better.
To me "freethinker" conjures up associations with smug atheist and "skeptic" communities, so I'm not sure if I would consider it better.
Er ... what?