GeniesLoki

How many of these communities have you been personally involved with? Poll in the next tweethttps://twitter.com/Tipsycaek/status/1316123134408364032 …

These numbers are about what I'd have expected to be honest. I think LW-rationalism has always had a strong norm of "If you're willing to have interesting conversations with us and mostly not be an asshole about it, we're happy to have you".

This is why they've got a reputation as being a hotbed of various unsavoury politics, because actually they mostly don't hold those views but they also tend not to exclude people with them.

So, yeah, you're going to get a bunch of people who are smart but also hang out on the darker parts of the internet. (Side note: I'm a "zero" voter, but my impression is 4chan is a more complicated place than people give credit for and PUA less uniformly bad than it's painted)