I didn’t want the post to be too long. I agree that not everyone on LessWrong agrees with this and exactly how prolific they are is an empirical matter that I have not investigated. However, my sense, having spent a lot of time around such people, is that they’re pretty common.
I didn’t want the post to be too long. I agree that not everyone on LessWrong agrees with this and exactly how prolific they are is an empirical matter that I have not investigated. However, my sense, having spent a lot of time around such people, is that they’re pretty common.
If it turns out the lesswrong is not anti-realistic, the post could have been half the length.