The rationalist community doesn't focus strictly on epistemology (though it is a big focus). They often bring other areas of the humanities into it too, like moral philosophy (like your food production example). In any case the situation is the same. They think they are the first to consider these questions, and are completely oblivious to the vast academic research that has been written on the topic. So they reinvent the wheel and collectively make a lot of beginner mistakes without realizing it. Then they write blog posts that flesh out these poorly informed and poorly reasoned ideas, and act like these blog posts are major breakthroughs in human thought, when they aren't. They only advertise the ignorance of the community.

I like that take too for exposure of the field lf epistemology, but with epistemology you get more like truth axioms, but with rationalism your getting more of a paradoxical ponderings type scheme, such as solving food crises while expanding food production without killing people. And people are mad about the truth expressed like that, but epistemology brings that kind of thing to the forefront too so, rationalist can make much better forensics when paired with the truth and really is lacking a foundation without it

The "rationalist" community is what happens when you get a bunch of STEM kids try to rebuild the humanities from the ground-up. They think they are the first people ever to discover the field of epistemology and then try to rebuild it from scratch, using cringy terminology and shallow reasoning. If you are actually interested in epistemology then research it using more reputable sources (e.g. sep). The rationalist community over estimates its own importance and level of insight and they do not engage with the relevant literature

At first I thought you were talking about the old man with a bad hair piece. But then I realized you meant the blue thing.

this looks like the alien, in resident Alien show.

*lose. Not loose.

cnc4, was so wierd and standalone. they thought they could target the asian market with that game, by making a wish .com starcraft. and they tried to money grab with tiberium ALLIANCE for some reason, i actually played and used the "free offers" get currency, eventually it became too hard without actually BUYING into the game so i abandoned it to focus on my classes.

If something exists then it can be measured. It does not depend on a person's ability to see.

And EA went with a very odd alternative.

funny thing the franchise planned thier return to earth, but was scrapped by EA being greedy.

First thing I thought was schizophrenia.

It's a unique disease. Very clear diagnostic criteria.

Though he didn't have one normal trait. Did you know that almost 90% of schizophrenics smoke? It's not diagnostic but that's a really high rate given that only 1% of the population is schizophrenic yet they account for 5% of smokers.

Fair enough. I wasnt asking because I wanted to throw shade, it was a genuine question, as I have never knowingly been around schizophrenia, and I dont know that I could diagnose it if I was.

Ah. Understandable. Dude was literally in the ER and the doc wanted to remove the hearing aid debris that was stranded in his ear canal. He is screaming that they can't do it because the aliens will stop talking to him telepathically. Even though the aliens had been talking to him telepathically for decades before he got hearing aids.

Eventually his wife, my grandma, has finally, after all these decades, had enough and told him that if he didn't let these docs remove the debris that was causing extensive pain that she was going to leave him. He would have died within days without her because he didn't know how to cook a TV dinner or have any other other essential life skills. He finally caved. The voices did not stop.

No lol, i was asking how you knew he was schizophrenic if he was undiagnosed.

Enrich billionaires

Was it about the toupee?

Edit: My question was answered elsewhere....

Was it about toupee that he refused to get rid of?

Anyone with that hairdo obviously has amazing judgement and should be trusted wholeheartedly

Calculating the question whose answer is "42".

He didn't start doing aliens for money until long until retirement. That's when he started writing his books, books I thought would never get finished, and being public about how aliens telepathically communicated with him.

As a career he was an engineer for defense contractors back in the day when all engineering happened on a drafting table.

They didnt really come to enslave so much as was concerned the local wild life on their mining op was still alive and actively fighting each other and the scrin, baited them to building a space teleporter, and then kicked scrin out the planet.

so SCRIN aliens of command and conquer.