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)

Some of mark Manson's work is kinda like this. I don't know if he was ever explicitly into PUA but the first edition of Models sure reads like he was, but the second edition is mostly genuinely good advice and doesn't have much I'd object to in it.