Actually, I admit to hanging out with that crowd on the internet sometimes, and while right-wingers are louder on the official "community blog", a lot of people among the community are explicitly anticapitalist. Hence the "capitalism == paper-clip monster" blog post yesterday.
What it amounts to is that if you ask what the loudest pet cause in the entire community is, you'll get "Friendly AI" and "the Singularity", the impending doom of the human race, and probably something about overbearing political correctness. If you conduct a statistically significant poll, you'll find that our opinions are largely just sampled from the tech sector as a whole, so we're actually very concerned about inequality and global warming.
Nobody gives a mic to the people who sound relatively normal and give answers to "interesting" questions that just aren't very entertaining because they're too damned simple and realistic.
What it amounts to is that if you ask what the loudest pet cause in the entire community is, you'll get "Friendly AI" and "the Singularity", the impending doom of the human race, and probably something about overbearing political correctness. If you conduct a statistically significant poll, you'll find that our opinions are largely just sampled from the tech sector as a whole, so we're actually very concerned about inequality and global warming.
Nobody gives a mic to the people who sound relatively normal and give answers to "interesting" questions that just aren't very entertaining because they're too damned simple and realistic.