it is about abstract intellectual ideas vs going out and doing the stuff as jacob exhorts us to do
in that sense it is arguably more on the “personal development” side of things
it is a monklike, non-social activity
Anti-ironic (english doesn’t really have a word for this… like when something is oddly fitting, like if someone named “James Baker” is actually a baker) insofar as LessWrong / rationalism is a pretty strong shared intellectual culture and that these seemingly solitary monkish endeavors are actually a space for social connection, thus perhaps we are fulfilling Jacob’s exhortation.
Well, ironic to the extent that:
it is about abstract intellectual ideas vs going out and doing the stuff as jacob exhorts us to do
in that sense it is arguably more on the “personal development” side of things
it is a monklike, non-social activity
Anti-ironic (english doesn’t really have a word for this… like when something is oddly fitting, like if someone named “James Baker” is actually a baker) insofar as LessWrong / rationalism is a pretty strong shared intellectual culture and that these seemingly solitary monkish endeavors are actually a space for social connection, thus perhaps we are fulfilling Jacob’s exhortation.