Approximately none of this reflects my experiences with rationalists I've met through things other than LessWrong meetups, etc. If you define rationalism very n

Approximately none of this reflects my experiences with rationalists I've met through things other than LessWrong meetups, etc. If you define rationalism very narrowly to mean "the type of people that religiously attend LW/CFAR events because they aren't too busy for that," this may have elements of truth, but it's also intentionally excluding a lot of people who are meaningfully members of the rationalsphere.