Strongly seconded. To sum up the most important points:
Instrumental rationality has its own skillset, related to but far from identical to the current OB/LW corpus. It’s a skillset we need if we want to deal well with the practical world.
Right now, folks with skill at instrumental rationality who come upon LW are likely to leave again. We aren’t set up to give them what they’re looking for, or to avoid misinterpreting them, or to ask for what they can teach us.
Adding a partial focus on practical, visible applications (i.e., including instrumental rationality in LW) might well improve the gender balance.
I’m pleased to note that there’s rather more instrumental rationality at LW (though perhaps not so much recently), with AnnaSalamon having contributed a good bit of it.
Strongly seconded. To sum up the most important points:
Instrumental rationality has its own skillset, related to but far from identical to the current OB/LW corpus. It’s a skillset we need if we want to deal well with the practical world.
Right now, folks with skill at instrumental rationality who come upon LW are likely to leave again. We aren’t set up to give them what they’re looking for, or to avoid misinterpreting them, or to ask for what they can teach us.
Adding a partial focus on practical, visible applications (i.e., including instrumental rationality in LW) might well improve the gender balance.
I’m pleased to note that there’s rather more instrumental rationality at LW (though perhaps not so much recently), with AnnaSalamon having contributed a good bit of it.