I don’t think it’s quite the same problem. Actually I think it’s pretty different.
This post tries to address the problem that people are hesitant to ask potentially “dumb” questions by making it explicit that this is the place to ask any of those questions. StackExchange tries to solve the problem of having a timeless place to ask and answer questions and to refer to such questions. It doesn’t try to solve the first problem of welcoming potentially dumb questions, and I think that that is a good problem to try to solve.
For that second problem, LessWrong does have Q&A functionality, as well as things like the wiki.
I don’t think it’s quite the same problem. Actually I think it’s pretty different.
This post tries to address the problem that people are hesitant to ask potentially “dumb” questions by making it explicit that this is the place to ask any of those questions. StackExchange tries to solve the problem of having a timeless place to ask and answer questions and to refer to such questions. It doesn’t try to solve the first problem of welcoming potentially dumb questions, and I think that that is a good problem to try to solve.
For that second problem, LessWrong does have Q&A functionality, as well as things like the wiki.