Lest anyone get the idea that no-one thinks LW should be more phygish or more exclusive, let me hereby register that I for one would like us to all enforce a little more strongly that people read the sequences and even agree with them in a horrifying manner.

I haven't read most of the sequences yet and agree with most of what those lw members are saying of who you'd like to see more of.

Most of the criticisms I voice are actually rephrased and forwarded arguments and ideas from people much smarter and more impressive than me. Including big names like Douglas Hofstadter. Quite a few of them have read all of the sequences too.

Here is an example from yesterday. I told an AI researcher about a comment made on lw (don't worry possible negative influence, they are already well aware of everything and has read the sequences). Here is part of the reply:

I don't need to justify myself. Rather, those who claim to be taking risks from AI seriously need to justify why they themselves aren't researchers in AI.

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I'd argue that further researching and extending a formal framework like AIXI is one of the best ways to reduce the risk of AI. There's plenty of other ways to make progress that are far less amenable to analysis.. those are the ones which we should really be concerned about. Actually, it's quite surprising that nobody who (publically) cares about AI risk has, to the best of my knowledge, even tried to extend the AIXI framework to incorporate some notion of friendliness...

I would usually rephrase this at some point and post it as a reply.

And this is just one of many people who simply don't bother to get into incredible exhausting debates with a lesswrong mob.

Without me your impression that everyone agrees with you would be even worse. And by making this community even more exclusive you will get even more out of touch with reality.

It is relatively easy to believe that the only people who would criticize your beloved beliefs are some idiots like me who haven't even read your scriptures. Guess again!