I suspect most rationalists will turn out to care more about their cuddle piles than about their ideas becoming mainstream. There’s always been a rather unhealthy interaction between community goals and the community’s social quirks (we want to raise the sanity waterline → we are saner → our quirks should be evangelized), and we don’t really have a working way to sort out what actually comes with increased rationality and what’s just a founder effect.
I have been trying to serve as a bit of a “loyal opposition” re: separating rationality from social effects. But I am just one dude, and I am biased, too. Plus, I am an outsider, and my opinions don’t really carry a lot of weight outside my area of expertise, around here.
The community itself has to want it, on some level.
I suspect most rationalists will turn out to care more about their cuddle piles than about their ideas becoming mainstream. There’s always been a rather unhealthy interaction between community goals and the community’s social quirks (we want to raise the sanity waterline → we are saner → our quirks should be evangelized), and we don’t really have a working way to sort out what actually comes with increased rationality and what’s just a founder effect.
I agree. And that’s too bad.
I have been trying to serve as a bit of a “loyal opposition” re: separating rationality from social effects. But I am just one dude, and I am biased, too. Plus, I am an outsider, and my opinions don’t really carry a lot of weight outside my area of expertise, around here.
The community itself has to want it, on some level.