That’s the umbrella topic, but I do not think that topic is in any way meant to exclude science. I mean… it’s science. How many thousands of words has Eliezer written on quantum physics?
Surely there are worse things that could happen to a community of rationalists than links to scientific discoveries of strong mutual interest. It’s not even a slippery slope towards bad off-topic stuff.
Edit: And I’m going to continue mostly contextless link sharing in the Open Thread until a link sharing subreddit is enabled.
It’s not even a slippery slope towards bad off-topic stuff.
I rather disagree. There are plenty of places online to find links to interesting scientific discoveries. And the sense in which Eliezer wrote about quantum physics is entirely different from the sense in which these links were “about science”.
That said, I didn’t mean to suggest in my question that the comment was off-topic, but rather wanted to know what folks thought about it.
I’ve always thought FAI was only tangentially on-topic here (more of a mutual interest than anything). This community is explicitly about rationality.
That’s the umbrella topic, but I do not think that topic is in any way meant to exclude science. I mean… it’s science. How many thousands of words has Eliezer written on quantum physics?
Surely there are worse things that could happen to a community of rationalists than links to scientific discoveries of strong mutual interest. It’s not even a slippery slope towards bad off-topic stuff.
Edit: And I’m going to continue mostly contextless link sharing in the Open Thread until a link sharing subreddit is enabled.
I rather disagree. There are plenty of places online to find links to interesting scientific discoveries. And the sense in which Eliezer wrote about quantum physics is entirely different from the sense in which these links were “about science”.
That said, I didn’t mean to suggest in my question that the comment was off-topic, but rather wanted to know what folks thought about it.