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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

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