Interesting find. I was curious if any of the commenters ended up reading the article and saying anything. All I found was this:
This is probably bad of me, but reading the whole LW post and comments made me laugh quite a bit. I know they aren’t NTs, but they’re otherwise smart enough to realize they come across as having a massive tone of unwarranted self-importance, right?
Also I get jollies off a group of rationalists creating a premise off one of the most messed up science fiction writers in the world was seeing things with crystal clarity rather than being an emotionally disturbed racist autodidact shut-in who wrote fiction that reflected that fact.
I think this person would have approximately the same reaction to most of our stuff, not just a particularly grandiose ritual article, but this does cement my opinion that this piece shouldn’t have been promoted. I’m not sure who to contact, I just sent a request to Eliezer but I’m sure we have more full-time moderators.
If we only ever promoted articles appropriate for those first running into LW, many of those promoted in the past shoudln’t have been. That’s far too harsh a standard to enforce. Not to mention it would make promoted articles a rather dull read (advanced rationality material is out the window and only a small fraction of intro posts would remain).
I don’t think it was a mistake for it to be promoted in the sense of it clearly being something most of the community enjoyed and many people only read promoted articles. In many respects I think LW is basically better at accruing those who already happen to share our peculiar memes and shibboleths rather transforming people.
Which may or may not be a good thing, but it certainly isn’t something that is much altered by this article.
Interesting find. I was curious if any of the commenters ended up reading the article and saying anything. All I found was this:
I think this person would have approximately the same reaction to most of our stuff, not just a particularly grandiose ritual article, but this does cement my opinion that this piece shouldn’t have been promoted. I’m not sure who to contact, I just sent a request to Eliezer but I’m sure we have more full-time moderators.
If we only ever promoted articles appropriate for those first running into LW, many of those promoted in the past shoudln’t have been. That’s far too harsh a standard to enforce. Not to mention it would make promoted articles a rather dull read (advanced rationality material is out the window and only a small fraction of intro posts would remain).
I don’t think it was a mistake for it to be promoted in the sense of it clearly being something most of the community enjoyed and many people only read promoted articles. In many respects I think LW is basically better at accruing those who already happen to share our peculiar memes and shibboleths rather transforming people.
Which may or may not be a good thing, but it certainly isn’t something that is much altered by this article.