I personally just am not really made to fit into communities, I do a much better job building my own.
I’d say that in my particular case, this issue screens off a lot of the other issues.
In the case of the Bay Area rationality as a whole, I think that in general it does a fairly bad job of being a friendly community for people who want to join communities, some of the causes of this seem to be (in no particular order)
High levels of autism and autism spectrum disorder.
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I personally just am not really made to fit into communities, I do a much better job building my own.
I’d say that in my particular case, this issue screens off a lot of the other issues.
In the case of the Bay Area rationality as a whole, I think that in general it does a fairly bad job of being a friendly community for people who want to join communities, some of the causes of this seem to be (in no particular order)
High levels of autism and autism spectrum disorder.
A large gender imbalance.
Weird status dynamics.