It is also very interesting to notice that the subject is charged enough to provoke this kind of behaviour. I don’t think it has ever happened on a discussion about a technical fine point of some decision theory.
This evidence increase the probability I have on the hypothesis: “LW crowd has totally failed in raising his own sanity waterline, on average. There are people who undoubtably increased their own, but they are more than compensated by people who get even more irrational on a rationality forum.”
Do you have evidence that favors that hypothesis relative to “The general improvement in the sanity waterline at LW is sufficiently small and poorly distributed as to make no difference among a large fraction of users when it comes to emotionally charged topics, even though both the mean and median user has raised their sanity level.”?
No, I don’t have enough data to discern between the two, but I think in measuring the rationality level I am/was assigning a higher weight to the charged topic like relationship between member of the opposite sex and the image LW projects against mainstream communities.
It is also very interesting to notice that the subject is charged enough to provoke this kind of behaviour. I don’t think it has ever happened on a discussion about a technical fine point of some decision theory.
This evidence increase the probability I have on the hypothesis: “LW crowd has totally failed in raising his own sanity waterline, on average. There are people who undoubtably increased their own, but they are more than compensated by people who get even more irrational on a rationality forum.”
Do you have evidence that favors that hypothesis relative to “The general improvement in the sanity waterline at LW is sufficiently small and poorly distributed as to make no difference among a large fraction of users when it comes to emotionally charged topics, even though both the mean and median user has raised their sanity level.”?
No, I don’t have enough data to discern between the two, but I think in measuring the rationality level I am/was assigning a higher weight to the charged topic like relationship between member of the opposite sex and the image LW projects against mainstream communities.