I’ve gotten questions from a couple of different quarters recently about my relationship to the the rationalist community around Less Wrong and related blogs. The one sentence answer is that I consider myself a fellow-traveler and ally of that culture, but not really part of it nor particularly wishing to be.
The rest of this post is a slightly longer development of that answer.
ESR is the one who got me into HPMOR, actually - the funny thing is, I'm not a hacker, I read him more for the politics and board games, but I find the computer stuff nifty(if opaque).
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6549