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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

It looked like a semantic quibble but in these circles, it was a serious accusation, one that drew rebuke even from Elmore’s husband, Ronny Fernandez, a rationalist and self-described “unlicensed philosopher.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

In 2022, a warrant was issued when Lasota failed to show up for a court hearing, related to the protest outside the rationalist organisation meeting.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

Intriguingly, a few informal but large surveys from the rationalist community suggest that both complete monogamy and complete polyamory tend to be more satisfying than the “monogamish” middle ground.

From Slate ● May 5, 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

But if Elmore was too extreme for the rationalists and effective altruists, Kirchner and others quickly became too hardcore for Pause AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

This represents one of the oldest debates in human thought: rationalists vs. empiricists.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

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

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