The funniest thing to me about “rationalists” and “less wrong” is the implication that other schools of thought are “irrationalist” or “more wrong”. The smugness comes before anything else.
Loaded question (well, affirmation), on a confident sneery tone while using poorly defined terms ("essential humanity") and very poor comprehension of object-level facts of the ground ("Markov chains"). And no sign of even trying to understand the other side, just trying to score rhetoric points on a internet board.
I guess I misunderstood then. It’s not just an Internet forum. It’s an internet forum with strict moderators. And it’s _very_ valuable.
It's possible to embrace a label without saying "everybody else is the literal opposite of that label".