When I tried to explain Less Wrong to my father (60ish white man), his response was, “I bet a lot of those people don’t have cars.” From which I think he meant that “rationalists” meant “people who are eccentric in the same ways you are”.
Well, most of the people in the NYC group do not, in fact, have cars, but that’s probably largely because… we live in NYC.
When I tried to explain Less Wrong to my father (60ish white man), his response was, “I bet a lot of those people don’t have cars.” From which I think he meant that “rationalists” meant “people who are eccentric in the same ways you are”.
Well, most of the people in the NYC group do not, in fact, have cars, but that’s probably largely because… we live in NYC.