The failure of the rationalist community is they mistook rationalization for rationality.

Why make better predictions, when you can make better excuses, and be wrong in much more sophisticated ways?

I may use different definitions than you, but I put it as "they conflate rationality and reason".

It really is a sad, provincial spectacle. Reminds me of the embarrassing "movement" where people called themselves "Brights". I expect we'll soon have a new movement called "The Smart People".

A weird synthesis of the goofy, the immature, the delusional, and the grandiose shot through with mental illness.