Rationalism has existed for 2600+ years and is one of the two dominant Western ideologies.
That would be a remarkable achievement.
In its first ten pages of results, zero concerned the LessWrong/Berkeley subculture.
(N.b. google gives you results it thinks will be personally relevant, so if you have any connection to that subculture, your results may vary.)
The first subculture hit was on the third result page: its own self-description. wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Rationali…
It’s the self-description of a *different* “rationalist” subculture: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rationali…
I did vaguely have that subculture in mind when writing this, because it’s so noisy meaningness.com/rationalist-et…
So maybe google hates LessWrong…
Or maybe it’s a tiny twitter subculture. Which is great, I love those!
it might deflate their self-important insistence on “correcting” me every time I use the word “rationalism” though.