This may be a result of selection—the military is a couple of orders of magnitude bigger than the rationalist community, and you heard the best of the best that they have.
True, but the mechanisms that cause people to want to join the military (and elite military units in particular) are in my view in scope for this discussion. What would it look like for the rationalist community to be a thing that many intelligent, highly motivated people aspire to join?
This may be a result of selection—the military is a couple of orders of magnitude bigger than the rationalist community, and you heard the best of the best that they have.
True, but the mechanisms that cause people to want to join the military (and elite military units in particular) are in my view in scope for this discussion. What would it look like for the rationalist community to be a thing that many intelligent, highly motivated people aspire to join?