Are group houses a controversial topic here? My impression is that overall LW is much more positively inclined toward them than the general public. With a view like, “group houses are something that works really well for the right people, though they aren’t for everyone.” I’ve seen reactions where people say that they personally wouldn’t want to live in one, but I don’t think I’ve seen people saying that they are harmful in general?
I think I remember some very negative comments on the “Dragon Army” post, but I can’t find them now.
There was a time in the past where people were a bit hysterical about whether LW is a cult or not, and talking about living together was one of the triggers. Recently, everyone seems to have calmed down.
Are group houses a controversial topic here? My impression is that overall LW is much more positively inclined toward them than the general public. With a view like, “group houses are something that works really well for the right people, though they aren’t for everyone.” I’ve seen reactions where people say that they personally wouldn’t want to live in one, but I don’t think I’ve seen people saying that they are harmful in general?
(Disclosure: I live in a group house of sorts)
I think I remember some very negative comments on the “Dragon Army” post, but I can’t find them now.
There was a time in the past where people were a bit hysterical about whether LW is a cult or not, and talking about living together was one of the triggers. Recently, everyone seems to have calmed down.
Dragon Army was, in their own words, a “high-commitment, high-standards, high-investment group house model with centralized leadership”. Reading through the negative comments, they’re about ways in which people expect this complex project to go poorly, and not about group houses in general: https://web.archive.org/web/20180117095209/http://lesswrong.com/lw/p23/dragon_army_theory_charter_30min_read/
https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/dragon-army-retrospective-597faf182e50