Comment on Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 02:39:02 GMT

Eh. Difference between theory and practice, I guess. I too wish there was more actual rationality stuff coming out; the archive is big, but it's hard to engage with people on those topics now and there's always more to cover. I don't mind the side topics so much as you seem to, but I would like to see more of the core topic.

As for the charity thing, that's EY's right if he so chooses to exercise it, but if income where you live is so low that $5000 is more than your annual income, or even if it's just temporarily more than that because you're a student or something (I made about that much per year on summer jobs my first two years of university), then I really doubt he would hold you to that if you were to approach him.

On the other hand, EY isn't anywhere near a top contributor to LW at this point in time; I barely see him comment anywhere on the site anymore. That's probably part of the reason for the dearth of good rationality posts, but it also means that his opinions will have less impact on the site as a whole, at least for a while.

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