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If You Can Be Bad, You Can Also Be Good

Published: May 4, 2021, 8:33 p.m.

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Spotted\xa0on Reddit\xa0about 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\u2019ve got to admit, I hate this argument. Also related ones, like:

\u201cThey say we\u2019re politicizing this scientific field. But no science is inherently apolitical. There are political assumptions wrapped up with everything we do.\u201d

Or:

\u201cThey say we\u2019re \u2018biased\u2019, but there\u2019s no such thing as a view-from-nowhere objectivity that doesn\u2019t import any assumptions. Everyone\u2019s biased, we\u2019re just not trying to deny it like they are.\u201d