What are the benefits you have in mind of making other connections? Intellectual? Hedonic? Networking?
Intellectual: To me, online discussion does a pretty good job providing diversity of opinion and conversation.
Hedonic: I’m under the impression that the 80⁄20 principle usually applies heavily, in the sense of the first 2 people you spend the most time with providing a huge chunk of the value, the next 5 providing a good amount, then there’s drop off, etc. If that’s true, then the marginal rationalist interactions would be filling in the tail end and not providing too much value.
Networking: This does make sense. After seeing Raemon’s comment and sleeping on it I woke up feeling like this could be a big deal. Mostly because of the fact that rationalist organizations do a lot of good for the world. Secondly because although it may be possible to “do networking stuff” remotely, in practice that just doesn’t really happen.
What are the benefits you have in mind of making other connections? Intellectual? Hedonic? Networking?
Intellectual: To me, online discussion does a pretty good job providing diversity of opinion and conversation.
Hedonic: I’m under the impression that the 80⁄20 principle usually applies heavily, in the sense of the first 2 people you spend the most time with providing a huge chunk of the value, the next 5 providing a good amount, then there’s drop off, etc. If that’s true, then the marginal rationalist interactions would be filling in the tail end and not providing too much value.
Networking: This does make sense. After seeing Raemon’s comment and sleeping on it I woke up feeling like this could be a big deal. Mostly because of the fact that rationalist organizations do a lot of good for the world. Secondly because although it may be possible to “do networking stuff” remotely, in practice that just doesn’t really happen.