What are the communities that are thinking clearly about how to make the world a better place? What are their strengths and weaknesses?
My partial list:
-Effective Altruism
-#GameB
-@RadxChange
-@BCorporation
-Crypto
-Permaculture
-Rats/Critrats/Postrats
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Is there a distinction between Critrats and Postrats?
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Yeah, critrats are an offshoot
@DavidDeutschOxf and postrats of@Meaningness . Although they agree on many things including first names, they ultimately have different philosophies.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mattgoldenberg @Ouroborus11 and
To be fussily historically accurate, “postrationalism” didn’t originate with me; and everyone (including me) who is sometimes described as postrational says they aren’t. I use “meta-rational” which is, at least, a different word…
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Replying to @Meaningness @mattgoldenberg and
About a year ago there was an authoritative discussion of where the word “postrational” came from, but unfortunately I can’t remember the upshot. Several people thought it was coined by
@willdoingthings but my vague recollection is he disclaimed it1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness @mattgoldenberg and
Rerarom Retweeted with practice comes perfection
Rerarom added,
with practice comes perfection @willdoingthingsReplying to @Meaningness @vgr and 7 othersyeah so Steve used it as a term for a group of mostly LW-adjacent people, e.g. the one true postrat muflax who I'm sure has transcended such things. but that's a boring history and Sarah canon afaik is you're supposed to make something up1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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