To the extend that this share is true, for what subset of the rationality community suffers from it?
I recall having had this feeling, in particular I once mentioned to another member of the community that I was thinking about working on a fiction-writing project but I also felt bad to admit it, because I was afraid he’d look down on me for spending time on something so frivolous. (This was quite a while ago, as in 2014 or something like that.)
I recall having had this feeling, in particular I once mentioned to another member of the community that I was thinking about working on a fiction-writing project but I also felt bad to admit it, because I was afraid he’d look down on me for spending time on something so frivolous. (This was quite a while ago, as in 2014 or something like that.)
Was that a member of the local community in your country? How much EA contact and how much rationality contact did they have?
From another country; to be clear, when I told them this they were genuinely surprised and confused by me feeling that way.