I'm not going to claim that the rationalists have ever been very good at spending their weirdness points, but I think what this post is seeing is not about spending weirdness points poorly, but about the sudden shift in the target audience from the Bay Area tech culture to the general public.
I looked for an original summary of the weirdness points concept in EA and found this post from 2014. Of all the examples of being weird in that post, only "a guy wearing a dress in public" would be applicable to not offending social conservatives, but it's only used to argue against spending weirdness points fighting "lookism" as hinted at by the caveat "in public". Being a polycule member who occasionally partakes in orgies is not mentioned as a problem, because the original target audience didn't really care.
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I'm not going to claim that the rationalists have ever been very good at spending their weirdness points, but I think what this post is seeing is not about spending weirdness points poorly, but about the sudden shift in the target audience from the Bay Area tech culture to the general public.
I looked for an original summary of the weirdness points concept in EA and found this post from 2014. Of all the examples of being weird in that post, only "a guy wearing a dress in public" would be applicable to not offending social conservatives, but it's only used to argue against spending weirdness points fighting "lookism" as hinted at by the caveat "in public". Being a polycule member who occasionally partakes in orgies is not mentioned as a problem, because the original target audience didn't really care.
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