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In June, a conference started by charity prediction market Manifold displayed the wild panoply of Berkeley AI subcultures—from doomers to an independent sex researcher named Aella who is popular in the Berkeley rationalist community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

But inside the brain trusts of Silicon Valley, billions of investor dollars and years of tortured rationalist arguments are clouding a similar argument about artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

In 2019 Lasota and three others were arrested while holding a protest outside an event held by a rationalist organisation.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

His father had been dead for eight years — and he’d been a scientist and a rationalist — but there he was, trying to comfort his son.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2024

But then it was José Arcadio Buendía who took the lead and tried to break down the priest's faith with rationalist tricks.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Even a 5% chance meant that Yudkowsky and his fellow rationalists now had a new set of converts in the quantitatively-obsessed EA community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Lasota began blogging using the alias "Ziz", but soon fell out with mainstream rationalists as her writings spun off in bizarre directions.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

They include atheists, agnostics, the culturally religious but not observant, rationalists and the spiritual but not religious.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

He also helped spawn the vast online community of rationalists and effective altruists who are convinced that A.I. is an existential risk.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

The existence of this romantic tendency constitutes at least a small part of the emotional makeup of most mathematicians, and is perhaps surprising to those who think of mathematicians as cold rationalists.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos