There's a community around it with a lot of overlap with the Lesswrong/rationalist community. There's a dedicated subreddit that's been reasonably active for a long time: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/top/?t=month
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Within this community there are subfactions. On the subreddit, one subfaction focused on culture war issues. They REALLY liked SA's posts about IQ, and especially if race was involved. They were 'contained' to a culture war thread and mods told people to keep the culture war in the dedicated thread.
But they were not really contained. Tensions continued, eventually the culture warriors split off to a new subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/
They marinated in their culture war echo chamber, developing a quirky Trumpy-but-not-like-the-weird-redneck-Trumpists culture.
At some point they became displeased with Reddit's moderation policies and built their own forum site: https://www.themotte.org/ . They still have a regular "culture war roundup".
...so in summary, a blog attracted a lot of armchair philosophers, they spent a lot of time talking to each other, a bunch of them now have very esoteric beliefs that only make sense to each other.
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They marinated in their culture war echo chamber, developing a quirky Trumpy-but-not-like-the-weird-redneck-Trumpists culture.