Problem: less "insight per hour of reading" than years ago.
For whom, reading what?
Someone interested in rationality but not already familiar with the last few decades' research on heuristics and biases, who hasn't spend a long time thinking about the scientific method and how religions spread and so on and so forth, coming to LW in (say) 2008, would have found Eliezer posting his "Sequences", which set out a large quantity of fairly-basic material in friendly form. They'd have got plenty of insight per hour of reading.
Someone in the exact same epistemic situation now could come along to LW and ... read t...
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