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Thanks for all the recommendations!
Generally, I have a sense that there are all kinds of really cool niche intellectual communities on the internet, and Reddit might be a good place to find some.
I guess what I most want is "things that could/should be rationalist adjacent, but aren't", not that that's very helpful.
So the obvious options are r/rational, r/litrpg, ...
That being the case, these seem like the most relevant para from your recs:
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... I'm probably not going to be very serious about reddit; I've tried before and not stuck with it. But finding things that aren't just inane could be a big help.
This sounds like a really useful filter:
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7TurnTrout
Second on reddit being net-negative. Would recommend avoiding before it gets hooks in your brain.