{"id":2061,"date":"2017-02-09T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:00:57","slug":"a-common-misunderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/a-common-misunderstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"A Common Misunderstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In a series of papers published in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dr. Ray Blanchard proposed that there are two fundamentally different types of rationalists with unrelated etiologies: instrumental rationalists, and epistemic rationalists ...<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;You just used language in a way that ignores psychological harm to people whose dysphoria is triggered by that word usage! That's a <em>bad<\/em> consequence according to the global utilitarian calculus! I thought you were a rationalist, someone who chooses actions based on their consequences!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A common misunderstanding. You're thinking of the good kind,&quot; I said. &quot;I'm the bad kind.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of papers published in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dr. Ray Blanchard proposed that there are two fundamentally different types of rationalists with unrelated etiologies: instrumental rationalists, and epistemic rationalists ... &quot;You just used language in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/a-common-misunderstanding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}