= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
wedrifid comments on Cult impressions of Less Wrong/Singularity Institute - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (247)
I'm here for only a couple of months, and I didn't have any impression of cultishness. I saw only a circle of friends doing a thing together, and very enthusiastic about it.
What I also did see (and still do) is specific people just sometimes being slightly crazy, in a nice way. As in: Eliezer's threatment of MWI. Or way too serious fear of weird acausal dangers that fall out of currently best decision theories.
Note: this impression is not because of craziness of the ideas, but because of taking them too seriously too early. However, the relevant posts always have sane critical comments, heavily upvoted.
I'm slightly more alarmed by posts like How would you stop Moore's Law?. I mean, seriously thinking of AI dangers is good. Seriously considering nuking Intel's fabs in order to stop the dangers is... not good.
That's a positive impression. People really look that enthusiastic and well bonded?
Yes to well bonded. People here seem to understand each other far better than average on the net, and it is immediately apparent.
Enthusiastic is a wrong word, I suppose. I meant, sure of doing a good thing, happy to be doing it, etc, not in the sense of applauding and cheering.
Thankyou. It is good to be reminded that these things are relative. Sometimes I forget to compare interactions to others on the internet and instead compare them to interactions with people as I would prefer them to be or even just interactions with people I know in person (and have rather ruthlessly selected for not being annoying).