This strikes me as the most cultish-sounding thing I’ve seen here—more so, say, than the boot camp.
This may be unreasonable on my part since I don’t have specific blogs in mind, but really—in the huge universe of blogs, no others are rationalist enough?
We couldn’t even settle on science and math blogs which would be of interest?
I dunno Nancy. I mean you start off innocently clicking on a link to a math blog. Next minute you’re following these hyperlinks and soon you find yourself getting sucked into a quantum healing website. I’m still trying to get a refund on these crystals I ended up buying. Let’s face it. These seemingly harmless websites with unrigorous intellectual standards are really gateway drugs to hard-core irrationality. So I have a new feature request: every time someone clicks on an external link from Less Wrong, a piece of Javascript pops up with the message: “You are very probably about to enter an irrational area of the internet. Are you sure you want to continue?” If you have less than 100000 karma points, clicking yes simply redirects you the sequences.
This strikes me as the most cultish-sounding thing I’ve seen here—more so, say, than the boot camp.
This may be unreasonable on my part since I don’t have specific blogs in mind, but really—in the huge universe of blogs, no others are rationalist enough?
We couldn’t even settle on science and math blogs which would be of interest?
It’s cultish to say we don’t have a consensus on this?
I dunno Nancy. I mean you start off innocently clicking on a link to a math blog. Next minute you’re following these hyperlinks and soon you find yourself getting sucked into a quantum healing website. I’m still trying to get a refund on these crystals I ended up buying. Let’s face it. These seemingly harmless websites with unrigorous intellectual standards are really gateway drugs to hard-core irrationality. So I have a new feature request: every time someone clicks on an external link from Less Wrong, a piece of Javascript pops up with the message: “You are very probably about to enter an irrational area of the internet. Are you sure you want to continue?” If you have less than 100000 karma points, clicking yes simply redirects you the sequences.