From my experience, the rationality community in Vienna does not share any of the craziness in Bay Area that I read about, so yeah, it seems plausible that different communities will end up significantly different.
I think there is a strong founder effect… the new members will choose whether they join or not depending on how comfortable they feel among the existing members. Decisions like “we have these rules / we don’t have any rules”, “there are people responsible for organization and safety / everyone needs to take care of themselves” once established, easily become “the way this is done here”.
But you are also limited by the pool you are recruiting the potential new members from. Could be, there are simply not enough people to make a local rationality community. Could be, the local memes are so strong (e.g. positive attitude towards drug use, or wokeness) that in practice you cannot push against them without actively rejecting most of wannabe members, which would be a weird dynamic. (You already need to push strongly against people who simply do not get what rationality means, but are trying to join anyway.)
From my experience, the rationality community in Vienna does not share any of the craziness in Bay Area that I read about, so yeah, it seems plausible that different communities will end up significantly different.
I think there is a strong founder effect… the new members will choose whether they join or not depending on how comfortable they feel among the existing members. Decisions like “we have these rules / we don’t have any rules”, “there are people responsible for organization and safety / everyone needs to take care of themselves” once established, easily become “the way this is done here”.
But you are also limited by the pool you are recruiting the potential new members from. Could be, there are simply not enough people to make a local rationality community. Could be, the local memes are so strong (e.g. positive attitude towards drug use, or wokeness) that in practice you cannot push against them without actively rejecting most of wannabe members, which would be a weird dynamic. (You already need to push strongly against people who simply do not get what rationality means, but are trying to join anyway.)