That said, here is as good an example as I am aware of for why the left-leaning world finds rationalists so outrageously exhausting. Including footnotes (footnotes!), this is a seven thousand word treatise on what can only be called a minor quibble. A psychiatrist wrote an anonymous blog, got outed, and doesn't actually seem to have been harmed much in practice. He's back to writing rationalist stuff under his own name.
Yet... this is somehow an existential thing we need to revisit (pg himself tweeted out this story this morning) again and again and again?
This is where the rest of us just throw up our hands. The whole idea of the rationalist perspective is that it's supposed to be detached from parochial loyalty. It's supposed to be about real problems and real solutions that affect real people in real ways.
And... when push comes to shove, it's not. It's just another tribe, waging just another tribal war. The fact that Alexander was wronged here is real. The idea that his wronging is of existential importance is just not remotely "rationalist". At all.