1. I did not know that, thanks! (I meant that it was invented by the modern polyamory community sometime in the last decade or two, more than specifically by Rationalists, but I was wrong about that, too.)

2. But, interestingly enough, if you read about the Kerista Commune that coined the term (a hippie commune, more or less, in the Haight in the 1970s onwards), among their precepts is this:

> 12. Rational Approach to All Things -This includes mystical and emotional phenomena; No acceptance of lapsing into irrational self-identity.

and later version of their precepts included these:

> 3. Rationality - Using reason and logic are basic approaches in all conversation, behavior, and inquiry; no acceptance of strong feelings, mystical intuition or unreasonable statements are being truth of any truth.

> 4. The Search for Truth through the Elimination of Contradictions - Working definition of truth: a very large body of premises which do not contradict each other. Contradictions between stated beliefs and actions, between two people's different versions of the same event, or anything else are encountered and analyzed to discover the most accurate picture of reality.

They were certainly a separate group from the present-day Rationalists linked to Yudkowsky et al., but I think their approach to handling their own feelings may have been very similar, and they definitely took the counter-culture approach of not finding society's previous acceptance of a norm of any value in evaluating the worth of that norm. I suspect the "Polyhacking" document would not have been out of place among the Keristans.

(As for schadenfreude, it's true that English doesn't have a native word for it, but it's certainly well-documented as an emotion throughout history - Psalm 35 talks about enemies who sneer, rejoice wrongfully, and maliciously wink, while saying, "Aha, aha!" One modern translation identifies what they do as gloating, which seems to be substantially similar. And apparently Aristotle had a term for it, epichairekakia: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...)