Quick take on the Rationalist movement: most surprising is how deeply normal it all is. The extremes are not that extreme. About as cult-like as the coöp I lived in in college one Summer: a few shibboleths, quirky effects of high social trust, youth, surplus wealth. …
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What it is not (sadly): Cypherpunks 2.0. More like (as was said to me once) what you get if you take Steven Pinker seriously, like, actually seriously.
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If Cypherpunks were the beatniks, the Rationalists are the hippies.
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Replying to @SimonDeDeo
The cypherpunks still exist, and they include people like maradydd and puellavulnerata. These people started out being more dysfunctional than the rationalists, so they had to deconstruct more of their priors. (Normies are largely people that never touched their priors.)
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How much overlap was there? I had assumed lots of crossover between the groups (or their ancestors) during the mailing list era.
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I think that the rationalists have discovered a mode in which they largely reached peace with the world, by resolving to make up for their differences to the normies via developing compensating strategies. But you cannot be avantgarde if you are at peace.
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