[nearbuy]

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.

[b450]

Oh! :) I saw "philosophy" and "rationalism" in the same paragraph and went into auto-pilot I suppose.

[jefftk]

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.