Over time, it seemed to become a kind of purity test to me, inviting the most fringe of opinion holders into the fold so long as they had at least one true+contrarian view; I am not pure enough to follow where you want to go, and prefer to focus on the true+contrarian views that I believe are most important.
You and I disagree on this, but it feels important to say we disagree on this. To me LessWrong has about a similar amount of edgelordism to the forum (not much).
Who are these “fringe opinion holders” brough “into the fold”. To the extent that this is maybe a comment about Hanania, it seems pretty unfair to blame that on rationality. Manifest is not a rationalist event significantly more than it is an EA one (if anything most of the money was from OP, not SFF right?).
To the extent this is a load-bearing part of your decision-making it just seems not true, rationalism isn’t getting more fringe, rationality seems to have about as much edginess as EA.
My view is that rationalists are the force that actively makes room for it (via decoupling norms), even in “guest” spaces. There is another post on the forum from last week that seems like a frankly stark example.
I cannot control what the EA community chooses for itself norm-wise, but I can control whether I fuel it.
You and I disagree on this, but it feels important to say we disagree on this. To me LessWrong has about a similar amount of edgelordism to the forum (not much).
Who are these “fringe opinion holders” brough “into the fold”. To the extent that this is maybe a comment about Hanania, it seems pretty unfair to blame that on rationality. Manifest is not a rationalist event significantly more than it is an EA one (
if anything most of the money was from OP, not SFF right?).To the extent this is a load-bearing part of your decision-making it just seems not true, rationalism isn’t getting more fringe, rationality seems to have about as much edginess as EA.
My view is that rationalists are the force that actively makes room for it (via decoupling norms), even in “guest” spaces. There is another post on the forum from last week that seems like a frankly stark example.
I cannot control what the EA community chooses for itself norm-wise, but I can control whether I fuel it.
Anyone know what post Dustin was referring to? EDIT: as per a DM, probably this one.