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evand comments on What subjects are important to rationality, but not covered in Less Wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: evand 09 March 2015 01:31:46AM 0 points [-]

There is plenty of talk, less data, and only very tiny amounts of tested changes. Surely the rationalist approach to solving a problem like this should involve empirical examination, not just armchair discussions.

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 March 2015 12:00:53PM 0 points [-]

LW isn't very big and as such it's not clear whether there are strong returns to experimenting with software changes.