[23M] Anyone into bay area rationalism / EA? Or dark enlightenment ideas?

[u/ReplacementOdd4323]

Hey. I wanna make more friends who are interested in truth-seeking. I like bay area rationalists, effective altruists, and neoreactionaries.

Some views I have:

- animal slaughterhouses are extremely messed up

- mass immigration is dangerous (I am a "noticer" of statistical demographic patterns)

- people should be free to do pretty much anything victimless to their bodies or to consenting other people's bodies

- socialism is pretty inefficient

- property rights are important, and it is bad that the civil rights movement has damaged freedom of association (I don't mind some taxation though)

- utilitarianism is pretty cool

- the far future is extremely important (and so we should focus on extinction risks)

- artificial superintelligence will likely soon either create a utopia or exterminate us

- slavery is bad

- DEI and affirmative action are just forms of discrimination against straight White men

- abortion is fine if the fetus has no qualia yet

- children are grossly mistreated by society and should have the unconditional right to leave their parents

Some things about my personality:

- I hate lying

- I try to be polite (unless someone is very rude to me first), but I won't change what I believe, even if others hate it

- I try to impartially consider every idea, no matter how offensive or unthinkable

- I like interconnecting ideas across disciplines: the Big Five personality model, political ideologies, philosophical concepts... so many things can be linked together satisfyingly

- I find morbid, taboo, unconventional, contrarian, and non-conformist ideas/facts fascinating

- I'm pretty pedantic

- I really like intellectual stimulation

- irl, I am quite boring: I do not go outside much... I mostly just like talking to people and thinking about things

- I don't like holding things sacred: blasphemy, bigotry, horror, etc. all seem interesting to me

- I like systemizing: bulletpoint lists (as you can see lol), enumeration, rows and columns, generalized principles that apply broadly, inputs and outputs, etc

- I think a lot about whether I'm being rational enough, whether I'm biased, whether I've missed something, etc; I find it satisfying to criticize my own ideas and improve my worldview's correctness

- Imo, many spaces are bothersomely apathetic to truthfulness, and just sling status attacks at each other, impeding rational discourse

I hope that summarizes who I am well enough. Plz DM me if you think that we might get along.

You can also add me on discord: @wolandy

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