Noah Smith says tech culture massively underrates sci-fi authors, and Patrick Collison once called him “more rational than the rationalists”: "Sci-fi authors. Massively underrated. I don't wanna insult the EAs, but they're oftentimes late to the party, and rationalists as well." "Most of the EAs were essentially scholasticists. They were people who read a canon and then debated the finer points of the canon." "Patrick Collison said, I think in many ways Noah Smith is more rational than the…