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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Some disadvantages of the ones I know of: EA - nihilist burnout of members, ironically quite ineffective
#GameB - no sense of humour, terrible ideas go un-laughed at Rats: too obsessed with things that don’t matter Post rats: perfect in every way ofc5 replies 0 retweets 23 likes -
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Re postrats: I've been thinking more and more that they're limited by defining themselves in relation to rationality. Their sense of importance of difference things is all warped by being "in opposition to" or "beyond".https://mobile.twitter.com/mattgoldenberg/status/1221836912320765961 …
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Replying to @mattgoldenberg @ssica3003 and
post rats are like anarcho tyranny: a joke taken too far
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Replying to @nosilverv @ssica3003 and
Ehh, there's definitely a shitposting strain of post rats that fit that bill, but I wouldn't consider e.g.
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Replying to @mattgoldenberg @ssica3003 and
oh yea but he'd never think of himself as a postrat much less as a reaction to EY rationalism looool
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Nobody self-defines as “post”. Post rats hate the word as much as the postmodernists / post structuralists did.
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Replying to @ssica3003 @mattgoldenberg and
oh didnt' know those posts hated it. i mean i say postrat but def as a joke. surrealist/dadaist would be way more approprite
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