I’m not very familiar with the rationalist diaspora, but I wonder if there were or are spaces within that where political discussions are allowed or welcome, how things turned out, and what lessons we can learn from their history to inform future experiments.
I do know about the weekly cultural war threads on TheMotte and the “EA discuss politics” Facebook group but haven’t observed them long enough to make any strong conclusions. Also, for my tastes, they seem a little bit too far removed from LW both culturally and in terms of overlapping membership because they both spawned from LW-adjacent groups rather than LW itself.
I’m not very familiar with the rationalist diaspora, but I wonder if there were or are spaces within that where political discussions are allowed or welcome, how things turned out, and what lessons we can learn from their history to inform future experiments.
I do know about the weekly cultural war threads on TheMotte and the “EA discuss politics” Facebook group but haven’t observed them long enough to make any strong conclusions. Also, for my tastes, they seem a little bit too far removed from LW both culturally and in terms of overlapping membership because they both spawned from LW-adjacent groups rather than LW itself.