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.
Yes, but different people have different comparative advantages, and thus should focus on different things. Money is fungible, but individual effort is not.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6549