Sure, I’ll share a general category of subcommunity I’ve been a part of at various times. It doesn’t always hang together in one particular form, but it’s popped up a few times that I know of.
The broader LW community is pretty down on half-baked ideas that don’t conform to certain ingroup patterns or that are not put forward by people already widely recognized as part of the ingroup. Sometimes, though, it’s nice to have people you can talk about half-baked ideas with who won’t focus on shooting you down exclusively because in its current form the idea looks like a thing LW needs to keep out. At the same time, being a rationalist, it’s hard to find other communities where you can have a fairly high level of trust that people are taking your ideas as seriously as you do and not pretending to understand when they don’t. So sometimes people form LW open idea subgroups.
The main criteria for being part of such a subgroup is demonstrated rationality skills and openness to new ideas. Unfortunately they deteriorate over time as new members widen the group rationality skill/openness bubble until the group becomes not open enough, too open, or too low skilled. Then after a while when the existing group has ceased to be able to serve its purpose someone starts a new one and the cycle repeats.
Sure, I’ll share a general category of subcommunity I’ve been a part of at various times. It doesn’t always hang together in one particular form, but it’s popped up a few times that I know of.
The broader LW community is pretty down on half-baked ideas that don’t conform to certain ingroup patterns or that are not put forward by people already widely recognized as part of the ingroup. Sometimes, though, it’s nice to have people you can talk about half-baked ideas with who won’t focus on shooting you down exclusively because in its current form the idea looks like a thing LW needs to keep out. At the same time, being a rationalist, it’s hard to find other communities where you can have a fairly high level of trust that people are taking your ideas as seriously as you do and not pretending to understand when they don’t. So sometimes people form LW open idea subgroups.
The main criteria for being part of such a subgroup is demonstrated rationality skills and openness to new ideas. Unfortunately they deteriorate over time as new members widen the group rationality skill/openness bubble until the group becomes not open enough, too open, or too low skilled. Then after a while when the existing group has ceased to be able to serve its purpose someone starts a new one and the cycle repeats.