Sorry to necro this here, but I find this topic extremely interesting and I keep coming back to this page to stare at it and tie my brain in knots.
(As for this, I think a major goal of LessWrong—and the alignment forum—is to facilitate sustained intellectual progress; a subgoal of that is that discussions can be sustained over long periods of time, rather than flitting about as would be the case if we only had attention for discussing the most recent posts!!)
(As for this, I think a major goal of LessWrong—and the alignment forum—is to facilitate sustained intellectual progress; a subgoal of that is that discussions can be sustained over long periods of time, rather than flitting about as would be the case if we only had attention for discussing the most recent posts!!)