bramflakes comments on Intellectual insularity and productivity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bramflakes 11 June 2012 05:40:10PM 3 points [-]

I don't just think we should be discussing new arguments that fall within our cluster of topics--IMO, we should be branching out even more. For a while now, a handful of LWers have been arguing in comments like this one that we need a much wider range of scholarship, and that subjects outside of LW's typical math/science cluster--yes, even those icky-looking liberal artsy ones--are worth studying.

I've noticed this when reading certain things. Half-formed thoughts like "huh this might make a good LW article if I compared it to Sequences Lesson #452", usually followed by "but it doesn't have enough math" or "it's not rigorous enough" or something similar.