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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 20 July 2014 08:18:15AM *  10 points [-]

LessWrong would have to somehow distance itself from MIRI and Eliezer Yudkowsky.

And become just another procrastination website.

Okay, there is still CFAR here. Oh wait, they also have Eliezer in the team! And they believe they can teach the rest of the world to become more rational. How profoundly un-humble or, may I say, cultish? Scratch the CFAR, too.

While we are at it, let's remove the articles "Tsuyoku Naritai!", "Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct" and "A Sense That More Is Possible". They contain the same arrogant ideas, and encourage the readers to think likewise. We don't want more people trying to become awesome, or even worse, succeeding at that.

Actually, we should remove the whole Sequences. I mean, how could we credibly distance ourselves from Eliezer, if we leave hundreds of his articles as the core of this website? No one reads the Sequences anyway. Hell, these days no one even dares to say "Read the Sequences" anymore. Which is good, because telling people to read the Sequences has been criticized as cultish.

There are also some poisonous memes that make people think bad of us, so we should remove them from the website. Specifically: humans could be smarter than Einstein, machines could be smarter than humans, many worlds in quantum physics, atheism... I probably forgot some.

Oh, don't forget to remove the "bragging threads"! Seriously, how immature.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 July 2014 09:58:49AM 16 points [-]

And become just another procrastination website.

Become?