I'm always on about how what the rationalist community is missing is the robust social norms of eg anarchism.

But another aspect is anarchism gives a sense of identity, commonality, and place, that's more historically sweeping. The rationalists are very big into feeling like they're inventing everything important on the spot from scratch. Whereas anarchism has two centuries of experience and experiment to pull from, and a wider sense of continuity with millennia of liberation struggles.

When you approach the world like you're inventing everything that matters from scratch all the time, you can sometimes get some novel insights, but at the cost of totally failing to apply them effectively because you immediately pratfall on something simple like turning on a light switch.

I firmly believe in individuals finding novel exploits, I believe in audacious investigation and novel invention, but like... you need a home base to return to and learn from.