Hello. I expect you won’t like me because I’m Christian and female and don’t want to be turned into an immortal computer-brain-thing that acts more like Eliezer thinks it should.
I don’t think you’ll be actively hated here by most posters (and even then, flamewars and trolling here are probably not what you’d expect from most other internet spaces)
it’ll raise the probability that you start worshiping the possibility of becoming immortal polyamorous whatever and taking over the world.
I wouldn’t read polyamory as a primary shared feature of the posters here—and this is speaking as someone who’s been poly her entire adult life. Compared to most mainstream spaces, it does come up a whole lot more, and people are generally unafraid of at least discussing the ins and outs of it.
(I find it hard to imagine how you could manage real immortality in a universe with a finite lifespan, but that’s neither here nor there.)
You guys really hate Christians, after all. (Am I actually allowed to be here or am I banned for my religion?)
You have to do a lot weirder or more malicious than that to get banned here. I frequently argue inarticulately for things that are rather unpopular here, and I’ve never once gotten the sense that I would be banned. I can think of a few things that I could do that would get me banned, but I had to go looking.
You won’t be banned, but you will probably be challenged a lot if you bring your religious beliefs into discussions because most of the people here have good reasons to reject them. Many of them will be happy to share those with you, at length, should you ask.
I probably shouldn’t bother talking to people who only want me to hate God.
The people here mostly don’t think the God you believe in is a real being that exists, and have no interest in making you hate your deity. For us it would be like making someone hate Winnie the Pooh—not the show or the books, but the person. We don’t think there’s anything there to be hated.
Why am I even here again? Seriously, why am I not just lurking? That would make more sense.
I’m going to guess it’s because you’re curious, and you’ve identified LW as a place where people who claim to want to do some pretty big, even profound things to change the world hang out (as well as people interested in a lot of intellectual topics and skills), and on some level that appeals to you?
And I’d further guess you feel like the skew of this community’s population makes you nervous that some of them are talking about changing the world in ways that would affect everybody whether or not they’d prefer to see that change if asked straight up?
I don’t think you’ll be actively hated here by most posters (and even then, flamewars and trolling here are probably not what you’d expect from most other internet spaces)
I wouldn’t read polyamory as a primary shared feature of the posters here—and this is speaking as someone who’s been poly her entire adult life. Compared to most mainstream spaces, it does come up a whole lot more, and people are generally unafraid of at least discussing the ins and outs of it.
(I find it hard to imagine how you could manage real immortality in a universe with a finite lifespan, but that’s neither here nor there.)
You have to do a lot weirder or more malicious than that to get banned here. I frequently argue inarticulately for things that are rather unpopular here, and I’ve never once gotten the sense that I would be banned. I can think of a few things that I could do that would get me banned, but I had to go looking.
You won’t be banned, but you will probably be challenged a lot if you bring your religious beliefs into discussions because most of the people here have good reasons to reject them. Many of them will be happy to share those with you, at length, should you ask.
The people here mostly don’t think the God you believe in is a real being that exists, and have no interest in making you hate your deity. For us it would be like making someone hate Winnie the Pooh—not the show or the books, but the person. We don’t think there’s anything there to be hated.
I’m going to guess it’s because you’re curious, and you’ve identified LW as a place where people who claim to want to do some pretty big, even profound things to change the world hang out (as well as people interested in a lot of intellectual topics and skills), and on some level that appeals to you?
And I’d further guess you feel like the skew of this community’s population makes you nervous that some of them are talking about changing the world in ways that would affect everybody whether or not they’d prefer to see that change if asked straight up?