nope! middling quality is the best I know of. the things that populate my mental quality space in order to give lesswrong the feeling of being middling quality are things that, despite being lower quality on their own, make me think LW is missing things in order to hit what I would consider “high quality on all dimensions”. I’ve been pretty happy with certain kinds of discussions on eg bluesky, and I think there are elements of discourse there that are good that are missing here, but the nuggets of good there are smaller and not part of an overall project of epistemics, but rather just people having interesting takes. There are also some mastodons I’ve occasionally seen good takes from, but I don’t go deep on mastodon. I have a lot of frustrations with LW that make me feel that people here are missing important insights, and I am working on how to distill and present them. but nothing that is as distilled good as lesswrong; I just still find that distilled good to be painfully lacking on certain traits.
to be clear, as I’ve become an ai safety person over the past 5 years, it didn’t change my view that most ai safety people are odd, annoying, and mostly wrong.
More later, thanks for poking me to get my ass in gear about communicating the things I’m being vague about in this comment. My ass is pretty far out of gear, so don’t expect this too soon.
Got any better forums to point me to? I’ll take a look and decide for myself how they compare to LessWrong.
nope! middling quality is the best I know of. the things that populate my mental quality space in order to give lesswrong the feeling of being middling quality are things that, despite being lower quality on their own, make me think LW is missing things in order to hit what I would consider “high quality on all dimensions”. I’ve been pretty happy with certain kinds of discussions on eg bluesky, and I think there are elements of discourse there that are good that are missing here, but the nuggets of good there are smaller and not part of an overall project of epistemics, but rather just people having interesting takes. There are also some mastodons I’ve occasionally seen good takes from, but I don’t go deep on mastodon. I have a lot of frustrations with LW that make me feel that people here are missing important insights, and I am working on how to distill and present them. but nothing that is as distilled good as lesswrong; I just still find that distilled good to be painfully lacking on certain traits.
to be clear, as I’ve become an ai safety person over the past 5 years, it didn’t change my view that most ai safety people are odd, annoying, and mostly wrong.
More later, thanks for poking me to get my ass in gear about communicating the things I’m being vague about in this comment. My ass is pretty far out of gear, so don’t expect this too soon.
OK, I’ll check out bluesky, thanks.
it’s basically just twitter minus elon vibes, so it’s not exactly highly novel, fwiw. I have invite codes if you decide you do want them.