Let’s be explicit here—your suggestion is that people like me should not be here. I’m a lawyer, and my mathematics education ended at Intro to Statistics and Advanced Theoretical Calculus.
No martyrs allowed.
I don’t propose simply disallowing people who havn’t read everything from being taken seriously, if they don’t say anything stupid. It’s fine if you havn’t read the sequences and don’t care about AI or heavy philosophy stuff, I just don’t want to read dumb posts about those topics that come from someone having not read the stuff.
As a matter of fact, I was careful to not propose much of anything. Don’t confuse “here’s a problem that I would like solved” with “I endorse this stupid solution that you don’t like”.
Fair enough. But I think you threw a wide net over the problem. To the extend you are unhappy that noobs are “spouting garbage that’s been discussed to death” and aren’t being sufficiently punished for it, you could say that instead. If that’s not what you are concerned about, then I have failed to comprehend your message.
Exclusivity might solve the problem of noobs rehashing old topics from the beginning (and I certainly agree that needing to tell everyone that beliefs must make predictions about the future gets old very fast). But it would have multiple knock-on effects that you have not even acknowledged. My intuition is that evaporative cooling would be bad for this community, but your sense may differ.
No martyrs allowed.
I don’t propose simply disallowing people who havn’t read everything from being taken seriously, if they don’t say anything stupid. It’s fine if you havn’t read the sequences and don’t care about AI or heavy philosophy stuff, I just don’t want to read dumb posts about those topics that come from someone having not read the stuff.
As a matter of fact, I was careful to not propose much of anything. Don’t confuse “here’s a problem that I would like solved” with “I endorse this stupid solution that you don’t like”.
Fair enough. But I think you threw a wide net over the problem. To the extend you are unhappy that noobs are “spouting garbage that’s been discussed to death” and aren’t being sufficiently punished for it, you could say that instead. If that’s not what you are concerned about, then I have failed to comprehend your message.
Exclusivity might solve the problem of noobs rehashing old topics from the beginning (and I certainly agree that needing to tell everyone that beliefs must make predictions about the future gets old very fast). But it would have multiple knock-on effects that you have not even acknowledged. My intuition is that evaporative cooling would be bad for this community, but your sense may differ.