Internet comments sections where the comments are frequently insightful/articulate and not too full of obvious-garbage [or at least the top comments, given the comment-sorting algorithm]:
LessWrong and EA Forum
Daily Nous
Stack Exchange [top comments only] (not asserting that it’s reliable)
Some subreddits?
Where else?
Are there blogposts on adjacent stuff, like why some internet [comments sections / internet-communities-qua-places-for-truthseeking] are better than others? Besides Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism.
ACX often has good discussion in the comments (but the lack of voting makes it quite hard to find them)
AskHistorian subreddit
There definitely exist good Twitter conversations but no good way of finding them. I do think following Gwern, Eliezer, Ajeya, Emmett and a few others on Twitter does tend to surface high-quality discussion
Hacker News sometimes has good discussion, especially when the authors of a linked article show up
Arxiv is basically one huge, glacially slow internet comment section, where you reply to an article by citing it. It’s more interactive than it looks- most early career researchers are set up to get a ping whenever they are cited.
Internet comments sections where the comments are frequently insightful/articulate and not too full of obvious-garbage [or at least the top comments, given the comment-sorting algorithm]:
LessWrong and EA Forum
Daily Nous
Stack Exchange [top comments only] (not asserting that it’s reliable)
Some subreddits?
Where else?
Are there blogposts on adjacent stuff, like why some internet [comments sections / internet-communities-qua-places-for-truthseeking] are better than others? Besides Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism.
Some other places off the top of my head:
ACX often has good discussion in the comments (but the lack of voting makes it quite hard to find them)
AskHistorian subreddit
There definitely exist good Twitter conversations but no good way of finding them. I do think following Gwern, Eliezer, Ajeya, Emmett and a few others on Twitter does tend to surface high-quality discussion
Hacker News sometimes has good discussion, especially when the authors of a linked article show up
Two others that come to mind:
Metaculus (used to be better though)
lobste.rs (quite specialized)
Quanta Magazine has some good comments, e.g. this article has the original researcher showing up & clarifying some questions in the comments
Arxiv is basically one huge, glacially slow internet comment section, where you reply to an article by citing it. It’s more interactive than it looks- most early career researchers are set up to get a ping whenever they are cited.