Jayson_Virissimo comments on Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 November 2011 09:24:27AM *  4 points [-]

In general I'm concerned with the way the community is headed - I joined for the philosophy, I'm less interested in reading about analytic people's approaches to basic social interaction. Some days I feel like this site has gone from Less Wrong to Wrong Planet.

I joined for the same reason, but since I maintain a Stoic stance I'm actually very comfortable with my philosophy impinging on my practical considerations. Philosophy need not be impractical (although I agree that some things, like "rational gift buying for persons 8 or under", are too disconnected from the philosophy espoused here that it would be best we didn't encourage those kinds of posts).

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 November 2011 09:29:45AM 1 point [-]

My impression is that sometimes there are more epistemic or otherwise technical articles, and sometimes there are more instrumental rationality articles. I don't have a feeling for whether it's mostly random variation, or if articles of one sort tends to inspire more of the same until people run out of ideas and/or get sick of it.