This is a very skewed demographic. LessWrong rationality would benefit greatly from the participation of a larger sample of mindspace.
No, most of mindspace would either be incapable of communicating with us in our manner of communicating or they would destroy us utterly before we had a chance to respond. Almost none of them just want to waste time chatting on internet forums.
Ask yourself what have we done to be more inclusive of non-humans lately? They are constantly excluded from the intended audience for example.
Sure. I engage in conversations about decision theory frequently. Within those discussions I consistently advocate a policy of cooperating if doing so will secure the cooperation of the other unless said cooperation could be secured without having to cooperate. Non-humans that gained access to records from humans either directly or through analyzing the space of possible worlds will be able pay heed to that if there is ever a situation in which cooperation between us is possible and desirable.
"larger sample of mindspace" != "random sample of mindspace"
That said, though, it's certainly true that we want a skewed demographic relative to mindspace in general.
And probably even relative to human mindspace.
I want to become Stronger!
Udacity are running an Introduction to Statistics course starting on the 25th June 2012.
Many of us could stand to learn some more stats, I certainly could. This seems like a great opportunity!
It is mandatory for all LWers to enroll in this course.
Update: the last line was a joke. Obviously people are not finding it funny. Sorry.