
Michael Gibson - The Thiel Fellowship, Rationalism, and Stagnation
From the New World
Is There a Religious Commitment to Rationalism?
I think there's something where utilitarianism seems like the only justifiable secular ethic My point is that it's not very utilitarian Like hedonism as much utils as you think being in a polykill gives you right. That to me obviously detracts from your ability to say keep your crypto exchange solvents Or or or let's say, you know solve AI risk. Yeah, that's true Not very utilitarian either right, but you don't even have to get into the the ethical side of things I think it's also true at the heart of rationalism which is its commitment to epistemology So I mean that the thought of rationalism came from this idea that we could purge
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