Things other that discussions on LW, the measure of its comparative quality.
For example I could have spent that 20 seconds researching new conversation material so I don’t lose nerd status when I meet with my engineer friends? Oh.
That’s a fairly big goalpost switch by the way. You went from saying lesswrong should be distracted by this and it should be talked about elsewhere to relying on lesswrong itself being for most intents and purposes a waste of time relative to actually living. In fact, since your initial move was to place this topics outside the scope of lesswrong the comparison ends up being, among other things, between reading a lesswrong spin on neutrinos-speed research and discussing the same subject somewhere else where the relevant biases related to updating on this kind of research wouldn’t even be comprehended.
For example I could have spent that 20 seconds researching new conversation material so I don’t lose nerd status when I meet with my engineer friends? Oh.
That’s a fairly big goalpost switch by the way. You went from saying lesswrong should be distracted by this and it should be talked about elsewhere to relying on lesswrong itself being for most intents and purposes a waste of time relative to actually living. In fact, since your initial move was to place this topics outside the scope of lesswrong the comparison ends up being, among other things, between reading a lesswrong spin on neutrinos-speed research and discussing the same subject somewhere else where the relevant biases related to updating on this kind of research wouldn’t even be comprehended.