“I feel like we’re developing at least 2 if not 3 tribes”—how do you see this happening? And are you talking about a LW/EA divide or a location divide, ect.
Hmm, I’m not quite sure what the attractors are. It’s not purely location, although there is probably a correction between distance from the Bailey on Ward street and feeling like you’re with the in crowd. EA is correlated with which people you are likely to spend time with, but that’s not quite it either. There’s also maybe some amount of self-selection around social norms between what we might call nerds (people observing nonstandard social norms or just not observing social norms) and normies (people observing sufficiently standard social norms that they can and do have non-nerd, non-rationalist friends). But there’s nothing so strong on its own that we’ve got clear divisions yet, just some early clustering around things like EA/non-EA and nerd/normie.
“I feel like we’re developing at least 2 if not 3 tribes”—how do you see this happening? And are you talking about a LW/EA divide or a location divide, ect.
Hmm, I’m not quite sure what the attractors are. It’s not purely location, although there is probably a correction between distance from the Bailey on Ward street and feeling like you’re with the in crowd. EA is correlated with which people you are likely to spend time with, but that’s not quite it either. There’s also maybe some amount of self-selection around social norms between what we might call nerds (people observing nonstandard social norms or just not observing social norms) and normies (people observing sufficiently standard social norms that they can and do have non-nerd, non-rationalist friends). But there’s nothing so strong on its own that we’ve got clear divisions yet, just some early clustering around things like EA/non-EA and nerd/normie.
What’s your guess for the ratios involved? (of EA/non-EA and nerd/normie)