I was feeling fairly negative on Less Wrong recently. I ended up writing down a lot of things that bothered me in a a half formed angry Google Doc rant, saving it...
and then going back to reading Less Wrong a few days later.
It felt refreshing though, because Less Wrong has flaws and you are allowed to notice them and say to yourself “This! Why are some people doing this! It’s so dumb and silly!”
That being said, I’m not sure that all of the arguments that my straw opponents were presenting in the half formed doc are actually as weak as I was making them out to be. But it did make me feel more positive overall simply summing up everything that had been bugging me at the time.
I was feeling fairly negative on Less Wrong recently. I ended up writing down a lot of things that bothered me in a a half formed angry Google Doc rant, saving it...
and then going back to reading Less Wrong a few days later.
It felt refreshing though, because Less Wrong has flaws and you are allowed to notice them and say to yourself “This! Why are some people doing this! It’s so dumb and silly!”
That being said, I’m not sure that all of the arguments that my straw opponents were presenting in the half formed doc are actually as weak as I was making them out to be. But it did make me feel more positive overall simply summing up everything that had been bugging me at the time.