TheAltar comments on May Outreach Thread - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 06 May 2016 08:02PM

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Comment author: tut 07 May 2016 07:28:29AM 10 points [-]

Ok, this is something I have been thinking every time I see an Outreach Thread, and now I can't resist asking it:

When did LW become a proselytizing community?

And are we sure that it is a good idea to do a lot of outreach when the majority of discussion on the site is about why LW sucks?

Comment author: TheAltar 07 May 2016 05:12:19PM 1 point [-]

EY was attempting to spread his ideas since his first post on overcomingbias. This pattern was followed through entire Sequences. Do you regard this as different from then?

Comment author: tut 07 May 2016 05:41:44PM 1 point [-]

Means and ends. LW was the means of "spreading his ideas" as you put it. Whereas Gleb is promoting the idea that we should do outreach for LW. LW as the end.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 07 May 2016 11:33:49PM -2 points [-]

Responded to your earlier point above - as you see, the point is to raise the sanity waterline, not do LW outreach.