Lumifer comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (7th thread, December 2014) - LessWrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 20 May 2015 05:11:54PM *  4 points [-]

The thing is that it is implied that altruism and rationality go hand in hand

That is not so. There is a certain overlap between the population of rationalists and the population of altruists, people from this set intersection are unusually well represented on LW. But there is no "ought" here -- it's perfectly possible to be a non-altruist rationalist or to be a non-rational altruist.