Will_Newsome comments on Evidence for the orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 05 April 2012 01:33:36AM 1 point [-]

What confuses me is that LessWrong continues to attract really impressive people anyway; it seems to be the internet's biggest/best forum for interesting technical discussion about epistemology, Schellingian game theory, the singularity, &c., even though most of the discussion is just annoying echoes.

Why is that confusing? Have you looked at the rest of the internet recently?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 05 April 2012 03:34:16AM 4 points [-]

Have you looked at the rest of the internet recently?

Not really. But are you saying that nowhere else on the internet is close to LessWrong's standards of discourse? I'd figured that but part of me keeps saying "there's no way that can be true" for some reason.

I'm not sure why I'm confused, but I think there's a place where my model (of how many cool people there are and how willing they would be to participate on a site like LessWrong) is off by an order of magnitude or so.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 05 April 2012 06:40:29AM 2 points [-]

how many cool people there are and how willing they would be to participate on a site like LessWrong

A better question is how many of them are willing to create a site like LessWrong.

Also minor nitpick about your use of the word 'cool', since it normally denotes social status rather than rationality.

Comment author: XiXiDu 05 April 2012 09:26:23AM 3 points [-]

Have you looked at the rest of the internet recently?

Not really. But are you saying that nowhere else on the internet is close to LessWrong's standards of discourse? I'd figured that but part of me keeps saying "there's no way that can be true" for some reason.

It might be true when it comes to cross-domain rationality (with a few outliers like social abilities). But it certainly isn't true that Less Wrong is anywhere close to the edge in most fields (with a few outliers like decision theory).

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