Does anyone either a) know of some good academic literature on the Rationalist cult or the Rationalist diaspora or b) have any clue how the hell you'd look for it?
From quietly lurking on the blogs of the like three rationalists I actually respect, NRX A Basilisk was pretty viciously mocked within the rationalist community. That's not an instant disqualification but it does suggest that the book should be viewed with a grain of salt. At this point in history, you could probably look into a) literature about effective altruism or b) essentially do oral history via reading things rationalists say on blogs, but that sounds both hard and obnoxious.
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Date: 2018-12-27 10:17 am (UTC)