Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“Practically everyone at Porcfest was a libertarian as were many of the rationalists at Less Online but the cultural feel of the two events was different, hippy/conservative at Porcfest, Bay Area grey tribe at Less Online. Many rationalists are gay, some trans; I expect most Free Staters, being libertarians, are opposed to legal restrictions on both, but I saw nobody at Por[c]fest who was obviously either. Many rationalists believe in, some practice, polyamory; the dominant mating pattern visible at Porcfest was monogamy, a large fraction of the adults married couples with children, sometimes lots of children. The Rationalists had more elite educations, higher status jobs, more abstract intellectual interests but felt less likely to know how to fix a car or cook a simple meal — although some are cooking enthusiasts, many felt like the kind of college students who have to be taught how to boil an egg — still less how to slaughter a pig.” (07/02/25)