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I’m pretty sad about this from a new-user experience, but I do think it would have made my LW experience much better these past two weeks.
it’s just generally the case that if you participate on LessWrong, you are expected to have absorbed the set of principles in The Sequences (AKA Rationality A-Z).
Some slight subtlety: you can get these principles in other ways, for example great scientists or builders or people who’ve read Feynman can get these. But I think the sequences gives them really well and also helps a lot with setting the site culture.
How do we deal with low quality criticism? There’s something sketchy about rejecting criticism. There are obvious hazards of groupthink. But a lot of criticism isn’t well thought out, or is rehashing ideas we’ve spent a ton of time discussing and doesn’t feel very productive.
My current guess is something in the genre of “schelling place to discuss the standard arguments” to point folks to. I tried to start one here responding to basic AI x-risk questions people had.
I’m pretty sad about this from a new-user experience, but I do think it would have made my LW experience much better these past two weeks.
Some slight subtlety: you can get these principles in other ways, for example great scientists or builders or people who’ve read Feynman can get these. But I think the sequences gives them really well and also helps a lot with setting the site culture.
My current guess is something in the genre of “schelling place to discuss the standard arguments” to point folks to. I tried to start one here responding to basic AI x-risk questions people had.
I got them via cultural immersion. I just lurked here for several months while my brain adapted to how the people here think. Lurk moar!