A longtime organizer of LessWrong rationalist communities is reconsidering the movement's core claims. Igor Timofeev argues that applied rationality training has oversold the irrationality of ordinary people and failed to deliver meaningful results—and that some of these practices may have actually been psychologically harmful. According to Timofeev, even foundational bias research holds up poorly under scrutiny.

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