David_Gerard comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

113 Post author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 January 2012 07:05:07PM -1 points [-]

Your cynicism is not helping. If you have some advice to improve the effectiveness of LW, please post.

Lesswrong is not for entertainment, it's not even that entertaining. 4chan blows lesswrong out of the water on that front. I for one am not here for entertainment, I suck at rationality and want to become stronger. Cynicism doesn't help.

If all you're here for entertainment, you suck at entertaining yourself.

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 January 2012 07:14:03PM *  8 points [-]

YMMV. I take LessWrong strictly [1] out of my internet-as-television budget, and find it more consistently interesting than 4chan.

[1] though I'll often Google to link a remembered post in random Internet philosophical arguments.