I think I’m going to stop responding to this thread, because everyone seems to be assuming I’m meaning or asking something that I’m not. I’m obviously having some problems expressing myself, and I apologize for the confusion that I caused. Let me try once more to clarify my position and intentions:
I don’t really care how diverse Less Wrong is. I was, however, curious how diverse the community is along various axes, and was interested in sparking a conversation along those lines. Vladimir’s comment is exactly the kind of questions I was trying to encourage, but instead I feel like I’ve been asked to defend criticism that I never thought I made in the first place.
I was never trying to say that there was something wrong with the way that Less Wrong is, or that we ought to do things to change our makeup. Maybe it would be good for us to, but that had nothing to do with my question. I was instead (trying to, and apparently badly) asking for people’s opinions about whether or how our makeup along any partition—the ones that I mentioned or others—effect in us an inability to best solve the problems that we are interested in solving.
I think I’m going to stop responding to this thread, because everyone seems to be assuming I’m meaning or asking something that I’m not. I’m obviously having some problems expressing myself, and I apologize for the confusion that I caused. Let me try once more to clarify my position and intentions:
I don’t really care how diverse Less Wrong is. I was, however, curious how diverse the community is along various axes, and was interested in sparking a conversation along those lines. Vladimir’s comment is exactly the kind of questions I was trying to encourage, but instead I feel like I’ve been asked to defend criticism that I never thought I made in the first place.
I was never trying to say that there was something wrong with the way that Less Wrong is, or that we ought to do things to change our makeup. Maybe it would be good for us to, but that had nothing to do with my question. I was instead (trying to, and apparently badly) asking for people’s opinions about whether or how our makeup along any partition—the ones that I mentioned or others—effect in us an inability to best solve the problems that we are interested in solving.