letters

Dear Sebastian, In response to your letter, I’m starting this blog. I didn’t actually coin the term California Rationalists; I found it in Alexi Sargeant’s 2018 writeup of the community in Plough, which I ran across in the wake of the NYT-SlateStarCodex affair. But I agree with all the conclusions you draw from my use of the term. Communities are best grounded in a physical place, and the Internet should contribute positively to our local relationships as well as our virtual ones.