“you will get a semi-obsessed sub-culture of users with a few shared biases who effectively take over”
Of course! That’s the point of the exercise.
The hope is that the shared biases will be ones that the site owner considers valuable and useful, and that the prospective audience for the site wants to read. A completely unbiased user culture would view anything that was posted (or not posted) as equally valuable. What use is that?
Besides, the site as it stands is already dominated by two people’s biases… and as Eliezer seems to do most of the moderation, it’s effectively one person. If that were a problem, why are you here?
“you will get a semi-obsessed sub-culture of users with a few shared biases who effectively take over”
Of course! That’s the point of the exercise.
The hope is that the shared biases will be ones that the site owner considers valuable and useful, and that the prospective audience for the site wants to read. A completely unbiased user culture would view anything that was posted (or not posted) as equally valuable. What use is that?
Besides, the site as it stands is already dominated by two people’s biases… and as Eliezer seems to do most of the moderation, it’s effectively one person. If that were a problem, why are you here?