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Is ratadj a misspelling of something? I've spent some time in EA circles and I don't know what it is, wondering if I'm missing something.

• beala 2y ago
  It's short for rat adjacent or rationalist adjacent. These are communities that are related to or originally spun off of the rationalist community.
  • mst 2y ago
    Thanks. Should've spelled that out in the first place. Too used to kicking around with people where it's a basically standard term (not always one used *positively* depending on which group of people, but I forgot it's not always clear).
• mst 2y ago
  Huh. Genuinely nice to know EA circles are involving/including people who aren't already sufficiently steeped in the origin/history/context/whatever of the movement to find jargon like 'ratadj' as obvious as I thought it was when I originally typed it. (and it was jargon and I've just edited this comment because my original phrasing almost certainly read as condescending in a way that was absolutely not why I was meaning to say; mea culpa and my apologies to anybody who read the first version) This does quite seriously strike me as an excellent sign for its sustainability and while, yes, EA has a whole buuunch of weirdness to/around it, I'm unconvinced you could've got a first generation of something like EA without being tolerant of the people who brought the weirdness, so: Cool!
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