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I agree that LW can be entertaining. However, if you always treat everything here as a big joke, you will miss opportunities to learn a few things (if that sort of thing is important to you).
Entertaining doesn't mean it's a joke. Mythbusters is entertainment, documentaries are entertainment, Wikipedia is (usually) entertainment. Humans learn mostly for fun of it - just like all young mammals (except adult humans do so as well).
If you claim that LW has some serious practical value, in terms of instrumental rationality - then I agree that its utility is greater than zero, but I could easily point you towards places online where you can learn instrumental rationality far better than here. And I'm always first to upvote such posts when they occur (like those about GiveWell for example, they're not terribly common).
If you claim that LW Solves Serious Problems And Is The Only Hope For Humanity, then unfortunately you've fallen for some serious crackpottery.
No, I merely mean that some bright/knowledgeable people occasionally post here. Learning is not always fun, or for fun.
I don't deny many people here are smart and interesting.
If you could point me to some things on LW I should definitely learn (and for some reasons more serious than entertainment), I'd definitely like to see that.