Yeah, Less Wrong seems to be a combination of project and aesthetic. Insofar as it’s a project, we’re looking for techniques of general intelligence, partly by stress-testing them on a variety of topics. As an aesthetic, it’s a unique combination of tone, length, and variety + familiarity of topics that scratches a particular literary itch.
Yeah, Less Wrong seems to be a combination of project and aesthetic. Insofar as it’s a project, we’re looking for techniques of general intelligence, partly by stress-testing them on a variety of topics. As an aesthetic, it’s a unique combination of tone, length, and variety + familiarity of topics that scratches a particular literary itch.