Someone even more cynical might say that lesswrong only departs from mainstream skeptical scientific consensus in ways that coincidentally line up exactly with the views of eliezer yudkowsky, and that it’s basically an echo chamber.
That said, rational thinking is a great ideal, and I think it’s awesome that lesswrong even TRIES to live up to it.
Someone even more cynical might say that lesswrong only departs from mainstream skeptical scientific consensus in ways that coincidentally line up exactly with the views of eliezer yudkowsky, and that it’s basically an echo chamber.
That said, rational thinking is a great ideal, and I think it’s awesome that lesswrong even TRIES to live up to it.