new rationalist dog whistle for /ourguys/ https://hollyelmore.substack.com/p/fuck-the-epistemics
Fuck The Epistemics

“Good Epistemics” is a dog whistle you might hear from EA/Rationality and it means “coming from the right background and sharing our frame”.

Holly Elmore
@davidgerard as someone personally very concerned with epistemology i find this one particularly annoying. there's a weirdly high overlap between the terminology the EA crowd use and my own, considering we end up with radically different political ideologies. like, if they're concerned about epistemology, and nuance, and the long term, why are they still capitalists?
@wehpudicabok well you know the answer (they're silicon valley techfash who have a couple of decades of LARPing at philosophy from first principles)