1 Introduction The Rationalists are a group of people, largely in the Bay Area, who spend their time on the internet site LessWrong and make a great show out of trying to come to their beliefs rationally. They're disproportionately utilitarians, atheists, physicalists, moral anti-realists, and fans of Eliezer Yudkowsky, the core founder of the movement. They also tend to be pretty worried about AI.
They also tend to be pretty worried about AI. I'm not a Rationalist for the same reason I'm not a Catholic. I don't have problems, in principle, with their attempt to uncover the mysteries of the universe.
I don't have problems, in principle, with their attempt to uncover the mysteries of the universe. I just think they're substantively mistaken on doctrinal matters.