Slang & Culture
Vibecamp / TPOT
TPOT (“This Part of Twitter”) is a loose community on Twitter/X centered on rationalist-adjacent, post-rationalist and spiritually curious discussion. Vibecamp is the in-person festival that grew out of it: a multi-day gathering at a summer camp that mixes unconference sessions, play and conversation. The scene also goes by “ingroup” or “postrationalist,” and it resists a single definition by design.
Origin · no single documented coiner
The community formed organically on Twitter in the late 2010s as readers of LessWrong, Astral Codex Ten and adjacent blogs found each other. Brooke Bowman (as @gptbrooke) proposed an in-person gathering in a July 2021 tweet; the name “Vibecamp” was chosen by poll, and the first event was held in March 2022 at a children’s summer camp outside Austin, Texas, drawing about 400 attendees. Later camps moved to Camp Ramblewood in Maryland. The festival is sometimes described as “Burning Man for autists”, though attendees note the vibe is different.