I first encountered the word “post-rats” a couple years ago in random contextless tweets and I was so, so disappointed when I found out they weren’t talking about some sort of weird animal transformation fetish subculture.
Whenever I see “rationalist” abbreviated to “rat”, I think of the Sliders episode where they land on Fundamentalist Earth and discover an underground movement of “radical rationalists” or “rad rats”.
So, if for no other reason, we should avoid abbreviating “rationalist” to “rat” because we do not need life to resemble Sliders.
I first encountered the word “post-rats” a couple years ago in random contextless tweets and I was so, so disappointed when I found out they weren’t talking about some sort of weird animal transformation fetish subculture.
Whenever I see “rationalist” abbreviated to “rat”, I think of the Sliders episode where they land on Fundamentalist Earth and discover an underground movement of “radical rationalists” or “rad rats”.
So, if for no other reason, we should avoid abbreviating “rationalist” to “rat” because we do not need life to resemble Sliders.