I would guess that the median postrat is better at math than the median rat Incidentallyhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1276139442114375682 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I can only go by people I see identifying as "postrat" on the internet, they strike me as overall the least stemful of the lesswrong diaspora
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I think we mostly do that at our day jobs a plurality of the ones I know went to MIT and work in tech as DS or similar but who wants to talk about that shit after work that is our JOBS
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I mean I know you are in tech in some capacity, probably an engineer? Maybe I have the wrong sense of who the postrats are, what, in your opionion, are their schelling points?
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esoteric shitposting, aesthetic theory, dunking on rats, drinking
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Replying to @eigenrobot
OK but is there like, a forum, a blog? Can anyone just call themself a postrat?
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Anyone can call themselves such but not everyone goes to the occasional events There are secret forums, very much not publicly facing, but most work is disseminated through twitter Most read
@Meaningness and@literalbanana and similar (but not@vgr) Mostly it's the friends we2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes -
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hmm, I am starting to suspect that a group of people not connected to less wrong heard the name and thought "post-rational", yeah, we like that, that's what we are. I don't associate
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Most people spent some time around early Overcoming Bias or lesswrong, certainly around SSC
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Replying to @eigenrobot @0x49fa98 and
Perhaps a common theme is growing out of WST and friends
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as Scott is to rationalism, ___ is to postrationalism?
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