If You Can Be Bad, You Can Also Be Good
Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Jeremiah Prophet
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Spotted on Reddit about the rationalist community:
I like the culture while hating a lot of the specifics...however[,] there is no such thing as "rationality" that is free from ideology.
I've got to admit, I hate this argument. Also related ones, like:
"They say we're politicizing this scientific field. But no science is inherently apolitical. There are political assumptions wrapped up with everything we do."
Or:
"They say we're 'biased', but there's no such thing as a view-from-nowhere objectivity that doesn't import any assumptions. Everyone's biased, we're just not trying to deny it like they are."