It was weird for me as a kind-of part of the rationalist movement, I can imagine it's weirder for you. Then again, your views have effectively become semi-main

It was weird for me as a kind-of part of the rationalist movement, I can imagine it's weirder for you. Then again, your views have effectively become semi-mainstream, or at least have shifted the Overton window so far that they're solidly within it. So it's not that unusual.