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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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 and and similar (but not )
Mostly it's the friends we
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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 with rationalism at all, though his philosophy has a similar outsider quality
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Most people spent some time around early Overcoming Bias or lesswrong, certainly around SSC
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Perhaps a common theme is growing out of WST and friends
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Oh is WST related to UST? I thought the two were distinct
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