Rationalism
publish #needswork Opened 2022-06-21. Adjacent to Musings.
a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
In my experience in the rationalist sphere, rationalists are just folks who believe in the liberal application of Bayes’ Theorem.
Sources
Rationalism can be a pretty edgy area online if you’re not careful but there are several sites I particularly like:
- Scott Alexander’s Slate Star Codex and successor blog Astral Codex Ten
- The rationalist forum LessWrong