I go to a lot of rationalist meetups. I quite enjoy them, and it's often because of the people who go to the meetups. There's a number of assumptions you might have about people who go to rationalist meetups, and many of them are mostly true. However, there is a difference between most examples and all examples. Most birds can fly.

In the tradition of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names then, I would like to present to you the following Falsehoods You Might Believe About People At A Rationalist Meetup. These are drawn from things calling themselves an Astral Codex Ten/Slate Star Codex meetup, a LessWrong meetup, or a Rationalist meetup. I am bucketing ACX, LessWrong, and Rationalist groups together. I'm not counting Prediction Market meetups or Effective Altruism meetups or TPOT meetups or house parties that happen to be full of rationalists or any of the other [...]

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First published:
February 1st, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/o8d8SDACd64YX2AZW/falsehoods-you-might-believe-about-people-who-are-at-a

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“Falsehoods you might believe about people who are at a rationalist meetup” by Screwtape

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“Falsehoods you might believe about people who are at a rationalist meetup” by Screwtape