Strongly disagree that 50% of rationalist group houses fall apart because of some kind of conflict, although I guess I’d probably want to operationalize ‘fall apart’ and ‘conflict’ better.
I can only think of one(?) public story about a group house that didn’t end well (Decision Tree, which was very much not a typical rationalist house)
I think a lot of houses chose to dissolve around the beginning of the pandemic, which was often due to disagreements about how to respond to the pandemic, but I wouldn’t necessarily characterize those disagreements as ‘conflict’
I know group houses where there has been some level of conflict but that often just results in one person moving out, rather than the house disbanding
I know of plenty of group houses that have been disbanded amicably, because young single people in the Bay live ever-changing lives
I don’t disagree that it seems better to rent partly because of the possibility of conflict — lots of group houses have a rotating cast anyway, and that seems like a bitch to manage if everyone somehow went in on the house together. But I disagree with the characterization of rationalist houses as incredibly unstable and conflict-prone.
What were the covid disagreements about? If it was just about differences in personal preferences and risk tolerances, fair enough, situations changed, someone had to move, but if it was about inability to reconcile or reach a satisfying compromise on the epistemics… I’d be disappointed.
Strongly disagree that 50% of rationalist group houses fall apart because of some kind of conflict, although I guess I’d probably want to operationalize ‘fall apart’ and ‘conflict’ better.
I can only think of one(?) public story about a group house that didn’t end well (Decision Tree, which was very much not a typical rationalist house)
I think a lot of houses chose to dissolve around the beginning of the pandemic, which was often due to disagreements about how to respond to the pandemic, but I wouldn’t necessarily characterize those disagreements as ‘conflict’
I know group houses where there has been some level of conflict but that often just results in one person moving out, rather than the house disbanding
I know of plenty of group houses that have been disbanded amicably, because young single people in the Bay live ever-changing lives
I don’t disagree that it seems better to rent partly because of the possibility of conflict — lots of group houses have a rotating cast anyway, and that seems like a bitch to manage if everyone somehow went in on the house together. But I disagree with the characterization of rationalist houses as incredibly unstable and conflict-prone.
What were the covid disagreements about? If it was just about differences in personal preferences and risk tolerances, fair enough, situations changed, someone had to move, but if it was about inability to reconcile or reach a satisfying compromise on the epistemics… I’d be disappointed.
I hope you are right.