My experience of the rationality community is one where we value Daniel’s poems and Raemon’s songs. The vibe of the LessWrong community weekend is not one of cultural values that tell people to avoid art.
To the extend that this share is true, for what subset of the rationality community suffers from it?
(By the way, Eliezer Yudkowsky, this is what post-Rationalists are, it’s not that complicated—they don’t have explicit principles because they’ve moved on from thinking that life is entirely about explicit principles. Perhaps you don’t intuitively grasp this because you don’t see the social group you’ve founded as a social group.)
They key reason why he won’t grasp that is because he doesn’t think that life is entirely about explicit principles.
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.)
My experience of the rationality community is one where we value Daniel’s poems and Raemon’s songs. The vibe of the LessWrong community weekend is not one of cultural values that tell people to avoid art.
To the extend that this share is true, for what subset of the rationality community suffers from it?
They key reason why he won’t grasp that is because he doesn’t think that life is entirely about explicit principles.
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.