I tend to agree with Shokwave’s replay. Lesswrong users not learning a bunch of history is not a big deal. The subject is fairly boring. Someone else can learn it.
Lesswrong isn’t supposed to be a site where all users must learn arbitrary amounts of information about arbitrary subjects. Most people have better things to do.
Honestly, I think you were too easily mollified by lukeprog—for the reasons I said to him there.
I tend to agree with Shokwave’s replay. Lesswrong users not learning a bunch of history is not a big deal. The subject is fairly boring. Someone else can learn it.
Lesswrong isn’t supposed to be a site where all users must learn arbitrary amounts of information about arbitrary subjects. Most people have better things to do.