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Critics of LessWrong or the so-called Rationalist movement probably have various people in mind like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, or Peter Thiel and the Silicon Valley venture capitalist community. But surveys suggest that the median member of the community is more likely to be a 20-something autistic trans girl suffering from depression and pursuing STEM studies. Any critiques that don’t take this into account may end up being misinterpreted.

the broader rationalist community is only like ~3% trans girls. Which admittedly is an order of magnitude more than the general population.

Tumblr rationalists, on the other hand…

(are still not majority trans girls. yet.)

This makes sense if interpreted as a “representative member” which allows one to overcount overrepresented demographics for illustrative purposes; the rationalist community is characterized by being disproportionately likely to be a 20-something autistic trans girl suffering from depression and pursuing STEM studies in comparison to the control population.

If the community has 3% trans girls and 7% “other”, of whom I believe one could justifiably round off approximately half into “trans girl adjacent”, we get a quite staggering 6% of “literally trans girls, basically trans girls, and trans girl adjacents” (which in my opinion is a somewhat more natural cluster in personspace than drawing a strict boundary between binary trans girls and trans-girl-adjacent enbies like me (I’m not sure which one I’d personally answer, but when people talk about the diaspora being full of trans girls they do mean to include people like me as well)).

So if the control population of similar but not-diaspora-rationalist people was, say, 80% cis guy, 17% cis girl, 2% trans girl, 1% trans guy (I’m rounding off enbies from this for simplicity purposes, no erasure intended); then the diaspora with its 79% cis guy, 13% cis girl, 6% trans girl, 2% trans guy (enbies once again rounded off to the nearest categories with stetson-harrison or discarded from the data; the numbers are eyeballed from survey results so they shouldn’t be horribly off but are not literally correct) is most significantly characterized by having a huge number of trans girls and thus the archetypical member is a trans girl even though the modal, median and average member is a cis guy.

Similarly, the archetypical member has all of ADHD, anxiety, depression and ASD to either clinical or sub-clinical-but-significant degree even though none of those are quite the majority (apart from depression which is very close). Thus the archetypical member is indeed a trans girl with a specific collection of badbrainsness which, I suspect, is actually basically a single underlying neurological feature modulated by our culture and mistakenly categorized as separate things by psychiatry which doesn’t understand biology and mechanisms of origin, and also probably implicated in why her brain is so good at filling out IQ tests that nobody believes the diaspora when we report it no matter how honestly and diligently we try to remove possible confounders.

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    This is also true in other directions: see the gay possibly Jewish nrx thing.

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    50% depressed… that is pretty weird when I think about it.

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