Comment by nearbuy
8 hours ago
You're (understandably) confusing rationalism the philosophy from the Enlightenment with the unrelated modern rationalist community.
For what it's worth, the modern rationalists are pro-empiricism with Yudkowsky including it as one of the 12 core virtues of rationality.
Oh! :) I saw "philosophy" and "rationalism" in the same paragraph and went into auto-pilot I suppose.
It's pretty unfortunate that the Yudkowsky-and-LessWrong crowd picked a term that traditionally meant something so different. This has been confusing people since at least 2011.