I feel incredibly fond for LessWrong. I’ve learned so much awesome stuff. And while not perfect, there’s a community of people who more or less agree on and are familiar with various, er, “epistemic things”, for lack of a better phrase. Like, it’s nice to at least know that the person you’re conversing with knows about and agrees on things like what counts as evidence and the map-territory distinction.
That said, I do share the impression that others here have expressed of it heading “downhill”. Watered down. Lower standards. Less serious. Stuff like that. I find it a little annoying and disappointing, but nothing too crazy.
Personally I have posts with the AI, Existential Risk, and Death tags marked as “Hidden” (those topics make me unhappy). So my feed probably looks a lot different from yours. I’ve noticed a reduction in quality and quantity of content.
That said, I do share the impression that others here have expressed of it heading “downhill”. Watered down. Lower standards. Less serious. Stuff like that. I find it a little annoying and disappointing, but nothing too crazy.
I don’t know, looking back at older posts (especially on LW 1.0) current LW is less “schizo” and more rigorous/boring—though maybe that’s because I sometimes see insanely long & detailed mechinterp posts?
I feel incredibly fond for LessWrong. I’ve learned so much awesome stuff. And while not perfect, there’s a community of people who more or less agree on and are familiar with various, er, “epistemic things”, for lack of a better phrase. Like, it’s nice to at least know that the person you’re conversing with knows about and agrees on things like what counts as evidence and the map-territory distinction.
That said, I do share the impression that others here have expressed of it heading “downhill”. Watered down. Lower standards. Less serious. Stuff like that. I find it a little annoying and disappointing, but nothing too crazy.
Personally I have posts with the AI, Existential Risk, and Death tags marked as “Hidden” (those topics make me unhappy). So my feed probably looks a lot different from yours. I’ve noticed a reduction in quality and quantity of content.
Things I’d really like to see:
Long-running conversations
A solution for babbling
Some sort of matchmaking where person 1 wants to learn about X and person 2 wants to teach X
I don’t know, looking back at older posts (especially on LW 1.0) current LW is less “schizo” and more rigorous/boring—though maybe that’s because I sometimes see insanely long & detailed mechinterp posts?