rationalism got pretty lame the last 2-3 years. imo the peak was trying to convince me to donate a kidney.
post-rationalism is where all the cool kids are and where the best ideas are at right now. the post rationalists consistently have better predictions and the 'rationalists' are stuck arguing whether chickens suffer more getting factory farmed or chickens cause more suffering eating bugs outside.
they also let SF get run into the ground until their detractors decided to take over.
Where do the post rats hang out these days? I got involved in the stoa during covid until the online community fragmented. Are there still events & hangouts?
They're a group called "tpot" on twitter, but it's unclear what's supposed to be good about them.
There's kind of two clusters, one is people who talk about meditation all the time, the other is center-right people who did drugs once. I think the second group showed up because rationalists are not-so-secretly into scientific racism (because they believe anything they see with numbers in it) and they just wanted to hang out with people like that.
There is an interesting atmosphere where it feels like they observed California big tech 1000x engineer types and are trying to cargo cult the way those people behave. I'm not sure what they get out of it.
postrats were never a coherent group but a lot of people who are at https://vibe.camp this weekend probably identify with the label. some of us are still on twitter/X
post-rationalism is where all the cool kids are and where the best ideas are at right now. the post rationalists consistently have better predictions and the 'rationalists' are stuck arguing whether chickens suffer more getting factory farmed or chickens cause more suffering eating bugs outside.
they also let SF get run into the ground until their detractors decided to take over.