[bitmunk]

The subset of techies you are talking about like to think that about themselves like that. They're as emotional and biased as the rest of us mortals, proof of that for example is characterizing the comment as irrational just because it doesn't "feel" rational to you, other comments talking about feminist re-educations camps or how climate change isn't that big of a deal.

I'm not trying to be antagonistic but one should be careful of thinking that they are inherently a more rational person.

[mrcrowqaw]

They're biased, but in a different way. Most people are steered by wrong feelings: they feel strongly about something, although don't quite understand it, and act on those feelings. Techies are less suspectible to feelings (they are deaf in some sense), but they often get trapped in mental illusions, i.e. elaborate mental structures and ideas that incorrectly describe the world.

This is also why techies dont make it far in power structures: they don't get that emotional aspect of human relationships.

[adamsea]

> Techies are less suspectible to feelings (they are deaf in some sense)

I'd argue "deaf to feelings" actually means more susceptible, just unconsciously so, and to different feelings.