How could they give us something so visually unappealing. So antithetical to this website’s primary purpose of giving it’s users social super stimulus? How could the mods have put in all of this work and overlooked the most crucial aspect of a VR room system? I am outraged, and frankly appalled that this was overlooked. How could they have built a VR platform that doesn’t let me present myself using an anime girl avatar? We’ll need to get started on GreaterWrong 2.0 just to fix this glaring UI issue.
If you’ve been part of LessWrong for any significant amount of time, you know how much effort we’ve spent thinking about how to avoid the problem of eternal september. Recently, after looking at our analytics for multiple minutes, we found out that a lot of users we don’t want have much slower computers, or are using their phones to browse LessWrong.
So, by making LessWrong basically unusable on those devices, we are ensuring a continued high-quality discussion experience on the site, by filtering only for rational people who spend exorbitant amounts of money on their computer hardware. We’ve already had great success with this strategy when we drastically increased the processing power necessary to run LessWrong 2.0 by moving everything to a javascript based web-app architecture, so we consider this a natural next step for us to take.
This is absolutely unacceptable.
How could they give us something so visually unappealing. So antithetical to this website’s primary purpose of giving it’s users social super stimulus? How could the mods have put in all of this work and overlooked the most crucial aspect of a VR room system? I am outraged, and frankly appalled that this was overlooked. How could they have built a VR platform that doesn’t let me present myself using an anime girl avatar? We’ll need to get started on GreaterWrong 2.0 just to fix this glaring UI issue.
Ok but like, for real though.