There’s also the whole Lesswrong-is-dying thing that might be contribute to the vibe you’re getting. I’ve been reading the forum for years and it hasn’t felt very healthy for a while now. A lot of the impressive people from earlier have moved on, we don’t seem to be getting that many new impressive people coming in and hanging out a lot on the forum turns out not to make you that much more impressive. What’s left is turning increasingly into a weird sort of cargo cult of a forum for impressive people.
Actually, I think that LessWrong used to be worse when the “impressive people” were posting about cryonics, FAI, many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics, and so on.
It has seemed to me that a lot of the commenters who come with their own solid competency are also less likely to get unquestioningly swept away following EY’s particular hobbyhorses.
There’s also the whole Lesswrong-is-dying thing that might be contribute to the vibe you’re getting. I’ve been reading the forum for years and it hasn’t felt very healthy for a while now. A lot of the impressive people from earlier have moved on, we don’t seem to be getting that many new impressive people coming in and hanging out a lot on the forum turns out not to make you that much more impressive. What’s left is turning increasingly into a weird sort of cargo cult of a forum for impressive people.
Actually, I think that LessWrong used to be worse when the “impressive people” were posting about cryonics, FAI, many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics, and so on.
It has seemed to me that a lot of the commenters who come with their own solid competency are also less likely to get unquestioningly swept away following EY’s particular hobbyhorses.