Is there a google map of LW users? I think we could use the number of LW users in different countries as a proxy for LW-style rationality, together with information how many people in given country are able to discuss in English.
(By “LW-style rationality” I mean trying to be rational even outside the laboratory, both epistemically and instrumentally, and trying to become even stronger.)
In Slovakia, it’s pretty much me and Barbara, although I am still trying to spread information around me. But when we went to a meetup in Rome, that was even worse—the only people who came were foreigners. Thus a hypothesis: traditionally Catholic lands are not friendly to LW-style rationality.
But when we went to a meetup in Rome, that was even worse—the only people who came were foreigners. Thus a hypothesis: traditionally Catholic lands are not friendly to LW-style rationality.
It’s more due to the fact that very few Italians (or southwestern Europeans generally) have fluent English. I mean, in my experience the average English teacher in Italy has worse English than the average bartender or policeman in Prague. I don’t think religion wouldn’t have a large effect, at least not around Rome (though it possibly would further south and east).
Have LW meetups been held in the Republic of Ireland (an English-speaking “traditionally Catholic land”)?
Is there a google map of LW users? I think we could use the number of LW users in different countries as a proxy for LW-style rationality, together with information how many people in given country are able to discuss in English.
(By “LW-style rationality” I mean trying to be rational even outside the laboratory, both epistemically and instrumentally, and trying to become even stronger.)
In Slovakia, it’s pretty much me and Barbara, although I am still trying to spread information around me. But when we went to a meetup in Rome, that was even worse—the only people who came were foreigners. Thus a hypothesis: traditionally Catholic lands are not friendly to LW-style rationality.
It’s more due to the fact that very few Italians (or southwestern Europeans generally) have fluent English. I mean, in my experience the average English teacher in Italy has worse English than the average bartender or policeman in Prague. I don’t think religion wouldn’t have a large effect, at least not around Rome (though it possibly would further south and east).
Have LW meetups been held in the Republic of Ireland (an English-speaking “traditionally Catholic land”)?