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I think EY is a self-important wanker, and SIAI is a society for self-important wanking, but I enjoy LW quite a lot. (and if you see LW as anything more than entertainment, you're doing it wrong)
And lukeprog is entirely wrong about LW being mainstream - there are parts of LWian beliefs that are "mainstream", but a lot of them are anything but. Cryonics, AI foomism, weird decision theories etc. - that's all extremely far from the mainstream, and also very wrong.
Bayesian fundamentalism is also non-mainstream. Yes, Bayes rule is all neat, but it isn't the answer to universe and everything.
I can see why this comment has been downvoted, but in context the comment is in a thread asking what people think of LW. In that context, it doesn't seem like a good idea to downvote such comments. Requests for honest assessment should be treated well.