I’m relying on my social experience and intuition here, so I don’t expect I’ve got it 100% right, and others may indeed have different interpretations of the community’s history with engaging with politics.
But concern about people over-extrapolating from Eliezer’s initial post (many such cases) and treating it more of a norm to ignore politics full-stop seems to have been an established concern many years ago (related discussion here). I think that there’s probably an interaction effect with the ‘latent libertarianism’ in early LessWrong/​Rationalist space as well.
I’m relying on my social experience and intuition here, so I don’t expect I’ve got it 100% right, and others may indeed have different interpretations of the community’s history with engaging with politics.
But concern about people over-extrapolating from Eliezer’s initial post (many such cases) and treating it more of a norm to ignore politics full-stop seems to have been an established concern many years ago (related discussion here). I think that there’s probably an interaction effect with the ‘latent libertarianism’ in early LessWrong/​Rationalist space as well.