… wha? Can someone explain this? I have absolutely no idea what this is reference to, or why it might be. I consider myself a rationalist, and I very much prefer living alone. I like my privacy. Same goes for many other rationalists I am friends with in real life. Not everyone likes having roommates.
More to the point, this seems entirely orthogonal to rationalism. What is Alicorn talking about here?
Rationalists don’t all like group houses, but compared to the rest of the population they disproportionately like them. There have been several in person meetup groups that have started houses, and these have generally gone pretty well. (Ex: Citadel in Boston)
It’s founder effects. I doubt that rationalists in general like to live in group houses. I am quite willing to believe that a particular group of rationalists in San Francisco who all tend to hang together in meatspace (and, not incidentally, are into polyamory) would like to live in a group house.
Yeah, a lot of Bay Area rationalistsphere people currently live in group houses. I have the impression that this is true of NYC rationalistsphere as well, but less true in other cities.
And yeah, I suspect that a lot of confusion arises from eliding “people who read LessWrong and other rationalist blogs and identify as rationalists” and “a specific social circle of Bay Area and NYC inhabitants who know each other IRL (even if they originally met through online rationalist communities).” The latter group does in fact tend to live in group housing; I have very little idea about the former.
Moderately true of Seattle as well (two group houses, plus some people living as housemates or whatever but not explicitly a Rationalist Group House). I’m not sure if our community is big enough for something like this but I love this idea and it would be a point in favor of moving the bay area if there was one there (that I had a chance to move into) but not one here.
… wha? Can someone explain this? I have absolutely no idea what this is reference to, or why it might be. I consider myself a rationalist, and I very much prefer living alone. I like my privacy. Same goes for many other rationalists I am friends with in real life. Not everyone likes having roommates.
More to the point, this seems entirely orthogonal to rationalism. What is Alicorn talking about here?
Rationalists don’t all like group houses, but compared to the rest of the population they disproportionately like them. There have been several in person meetup groups that have started houses, and these have generally gone pretty well. (Ex: Citadel in Boston)
I’m skeptical that meetups are representative of rationalists in general.
It’s founder effects. I doubt that rationalists in general like to live in group houses. I am quite willing to believe that a particular group of rationalists in San Francisco who all tend to hang together in meatspace (and, not incidentally, are into polyamory) would like to live in a group house.
Yeah, a lot of Bay Area rationalistsphere people currently live in group houses. I have the impression that this is true of NYC rationalistsphere as well, but less true in other cities.
And yeah, I suspect that a lot of confusion arises from eliding “people who read LessWrong and other rationalist blogs and identify as rationalists” and “a specific social circle of Bay Area and NYC inhabitants who know each other IRL (even if they originally met through online rationalist communities).” The latter group does in fact tend to live in group housing; I have very little idea about the former.
Moderately true of Seattle as well (two group houses, plus some people living as housemates or whatever but not explicitly a Rationalist Group House). I’m not sure if our community is big enough for something like this but I love this idea and it would be a point in favor of moving the bay area if there was one there (that I had a chance to move into) but not one here.