There is bias, and LessWrong has a lot of ideas deemed "settled."
Any group has a lot of ideas that are settled. If you want to convince any scientific minded group that the Aristoteles four elements is true, then you have to hit a high bar for not getting rejected. If anything LW allows a wide array of contrarian points.
LW's second highest voted post is Holden's post against MIRI and is contrarian to core ideas of this community in the same sense as a post criticizing EA is. The difference is that the post actualy goes deep and make a substantive argument.
I want to say that that's what I was trying to imply, but that might be backwards-rationalization. I do have the impression that contrarian ideas are accepted and lauded if and only if they're presented with the reasoning standards of the community. I'll be honest: LW does strike me as far-fetched in some respects BUT I recognize that I haven't done enough reading on those subjects to have an informed opinion. I've lurked but am not an ingrained member of the community and can't give a detailed analysis of the standards. Only my impression.
AND I reali...
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