They're a group called "tpot" on twitter, but it's unclear what's supposed to be good about them.
There's kind of two clusters, one is people who talk about meditation all the time, the other is center-right people who did drugs once. I think the second group showed up because rationalists are not-so-secretly into scientific racism (because they believe anything they see with numbers in it) and they just wanted to hang out with people like that.
There is an interesting atmosphere where it feels like they observed California big tech 1000x engineer types and are trying to cargo cult the way those people behave. I'm not sure what they get out of it.
There's kind of two clusters, one is people who talk about meditation all the time, the other is center-right people who did drugs once. I think the second group showed up because rationalists are not-so-secretly into scientific racism (because they believe anything they see with numbers in it) and they just wanted to hang out with people like that.
There is an interesting atmosphere where it feels like they observed California big tech 1000x engineer types and are trying to cargo cult the way those people behave. I'm not sure what they get out of it.