Is this true of atheistic humanists? Of transhumanists? Could you devise an experiment to test whether it was so, would you bet on the results of that experiment? Will they say the same of LessWrongers, someday? And if so, what’s the point?
Now that I think on it, though, there might be a case for scientists being drawn from a different distribution, or computer programmers, or for that matter science fiction fans (are those all the same distributions as each other, I wonder?).
If LW-rationality goes mainstream, it’s followers will then be drawn from the same distribution.
If LW-rationality goes mainstream, it’s followers will then be drawn from the same distribution.
I find it unlikely that we’ll have to opportunity to observe this.
I think it’s plausible that LW-rationality, or rather a third hand version of it, will go mainstream.