I really like the idea, but what are the limits? Can one just spit out random, speculative opinions? Can one come and just unironically state “I think Trump being president is evidence that the aliens are among us” as long as they sincerely suspect the correlation?
Can one just spit out random, speculative opinions?
Sure.
Can one come and just unironically state “I think Trump being president is evidence that the aliens are among us” as long as they sincerely suspect the correlation?
FWIW, while I like the idea of this thread and think it’s good to not proactively discourage ideas, I will say if it turned out that this was the majority of the sorts of ideas that were coming out I’d probably regard the experiment as a failure, or at least lose interest.
I really like the idea, but what are the limits? Can one just spit out random, speculative opinions? Can one come and just unironically state “I think Trump being president is evidence that the aliens are among us” as long as they sincerely suspect the correlation?
Sure.
Yup. That’s the idea.
FWIW, while I like the idea of this thread and think it’s good to not proactively discourage ideas, I will say if it turned out that this was the majority of the sorts of ideas that were coming out I’d probably regard the experiment as a failure, or at least lose interest.
Well, if Lesswrongers participated in this thread in good faith, I don’t expect such a result.
If I see such a result, I’ll update more towards Lesswrongers are trolls than Lesswrongers hold such beliefs.
The third option is ’the existence of such a thread attracts a new sort of person to Less Wrong’
In so much as that is the outcome, I think such a thread is a terrible idea.