the.com/rationalist
Someone who trusts reason so hard they wrote a 10,000-word post about it.
means A person who treats logic, evidence, and explicit reasoning as the primary path to truth, often skeptical of intuition and tradition.
from From Latin ratio, reason or calculation; the philosophical movement crystallized with Descartes and Spinoza, who insisted the mind, not the senses, finds truth.
Old feudRationalists vs empiricists: thinking versus seeing, for centuries.
Modern flavorOnline communities obsessed with biases, Bayes, and AI doom.
Bayes worshipProbability updates treated as a moral duty.