Worse case scenario I'd take it over entirely.
I guess the definition of "rationalist community" has grown too far, and now means more or less "anyone who seems smart and either pays lip service to reason or is a friend with the right people".
If you really think that you should add the definition here: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Rationalist_movement
I'm not sure how others have been using the word
Please read the article for plenty of examples and get back to me how your view compares or differentiates!
Regarding setting up a gaming server, that seems like something feasible to spin off the Slack or Discord chats. If you're a gamer, Discord is pretty cool an I recommend it. (I was once a gamer like you but I decided I was wasting my life so waste my life writing wikis instead ;) )
Developing the most important ideas would fall under 'rationalist research'.
Absolutely!
I've captured the key info for future expansion but I don't have the time to dive the entire list myself, so understanding notable people, conversations and activities would be greatly appreciated!
I have written the most comprehensive high-level history of transhumanism and I would love to flesh out these earlier days better. Grab me on Slack or did you prefer some other channel?
That would be an insane amount of work
Not at all. Once you're familiar with syntax, it's far less work than creating e.g. an original article summary for instance.
Info on successor site?
I got this this doc from the facebook group. I urgently need to find out if this can merge to the wiki or is going to be a hard forked doc
It's definitely a development on the idea of social stagnation yes. Arguablely a plot point of the 'Dune' prequels.
The arguments are mostly unrebutted still, no matter what zealots think :(
Definitely some good points there I need to add.
Cheers, I fail at the LW UI
Pretty much, but I advocate this only in an opt-in, accountable fashion. Or as we say in the IT industry - user acceptance. :)
I am posting here to karma-whore, so that I may one day allowed to actually contribute to the community!
I run H+Pedia the wiki of transhumanism and futurism which has been a great ongoing project to map out everything from emerging technology developments through to political and ideological advocacy in this space.
I'm also a cybercrime researcher, so my life is rather cyberpunk.
Asking me to sum up the current state of the H+ movement is tricky because I track the entire thing on H+Pedia.
Atheism is growing very strong, due to the influence of Zoltan Istvan, where as I believe Aubrey de Grey is toning down some of his immortalist rhetoric in favour of alternative terms like "Regenerative Medicine" and the like.
There are all kinds of trends I could comment on.
Immortality comes with all kinds of definitions, literal immortality sounds more of a type-X civilization problem to me :)
Immortalism is losing popularity within H+ due to its popular interpretation as 'forced immortality', a trope well explored in fiction. :/
I know the guy running the githug repo and his sources, that'll do me for now.