I’m one of the lurkers that would really like to see such a discussion forum. Since a forums quality is almost solely decided by it’s members a more general forum with the same user base as Less Wrong should easily be superior to most forums even on specialist topics. Maintaining the same high standards of discourse would probably be difficult though since I assume that the focus on rationalist topics here discourages non rationalists from participating, something which wouldn’t be the case on a more general forum.
I’m one of the lurkers that would really like to see such a discussion forum. Since a forums quality is almost solely decided by it’s members a more general forum with the same user base as Less Wrong should easily be superior to most forums even on specialist topics. Maintaining the same high standards of discourse would probably be difficult though since I assume that the focus on rationalist topics here discourages non rationalists from participating, something which wouldn’t be the case on a more general forum.