Question: How representative do you think posts on Less Wrong are in terms of how rationalists make decisions in practise? If there is a difference, do you think spending time on LW may affect your perspective on how rationalists make decisions?
(1) What is your favourite LW post (or blog post) for?
(2) How do you think the opinions of LW posters will be expressed (if they are not on the ‘better’ topics you might like to include)?
(3) Any existing LW comments are very very welcome.
(4) If you are a regular poster, what is the biggest incentive for you to comment?
(5) This website is very personal, and you may have trouble detecting people’s personal page, so you might want to make a serious shot at understanding what is going on here.
I think a large part of LW’s appeal is to “people feel comfortable and positive”, and we are all strongly in favor of this.
Some of my friends think that Less Wrong, and many of my communities’ memes, are much more effective than other memes, and the truth of this is most apparent in the media.
I think the truth of this whole business is most clear in the meme.
(I don’t actually know that much (though there is an interesting and surprising amount of writing by smart people).)
That last parenthetical remark is funny when you consider how GPT-2 knows nothing new but just reshuffles the “interesting and surprising amount of writing by smart people”.
This is indeed interesting and informative—I can’t see anything else on that thread except the title. How does Eliezer link to this “thing” and this “thing” when he says that it’s a “boring idea”?
Question: How representative do you think posts on Less Wrong are in terms of how rationalists make decisions in practise? If there is a difference, do you think spending time on LW may affect your perspective on how rationalists make decisions?
A few related questions:
(1) What is your favourite LW post (or blog post) for?
(2) How do you think the opinions of LW posters will be expressed (if they are not on the ‘better’ topics you might like to include)?
(3) Any existing LW comments are very very welcome.
(4) If you are a regular poster, what is the biggest incentive for you to comment?
(5) This website is very personal, and you may have trouble detecting people’s personal page, so you might want to make a serious shot at understanding what is going on here.
I think a large part of LW’s appeal is to “people feel comfortable and positive”, and we are all strongly in favor of this.
Some of my friends think that Less Wrong, and many of my communities’ memes, are much more effective than other memes, and the truth of this is most apparent in the media.
I think the truth of this whole business is most clear in the meme.
(I don’t actually know that much (though there is an interesting and surprising amount of writing by smart people).)
That last parenthetical remark is funny when you consider how GPT-2 knows nothing new but just reshuffles the “interesting and surprising amount of writing by smart people”.
Eliezer,
This is indeed interesting and informative—I can’t see anything else on that thread except the title. How does Eliezer link to this “thing” and this “thing” when he says that it’s a “boring idea”?