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rationalsphere

noun

Etymology

rational + or rationalist + -sphere (“designating a particular realm or interest of a group of people, object, etc”)

  1. derived from rationalis
  2. derived from rational
  3. suffixed as rationalist — “rational + ist”
  4. suffixed as rationalsphere — “rationalist + -sphere”

Definitions

  1. An online community of individuals, centered around the forum LessWrong and the blog…

    An online community of individuals, centered around the forum LessWrong and the blog Slate Star Codex, who discuss philosophy, psychology, and futurism through the lens of Bayesianism and rationality.

    • Several of the key concepts that do the rounds in the Rationalsphere these days first arose on SL4 and the Extropians.
    • I know that Cummings is a fan, because he regularly quotes them. His blogroll includes links to LessWrong, Slate Star Codex and Eliezer Yudkowsky, three of the key parts of the Rationalsphere.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rationalsphere. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA