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NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread, May 18 - May 24, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: D_Malik 18 May 2015 05:16:11AM 11 points [-]

I don't think a shutdown is even remotely likely. LW is still the Schelling point for rationalist discussion; Roko-gate will follow us regardless; SSC/Gwern.net are personal blogs with discussion sections that are respectively unusable and nonexistent. CFAR is still an IRL thing, and almost all of MIRI/CFAR's fans have come from the internet.

Agreed though that LW is slowly losing steam, though. Not sure what should be done about it.

Comment author: SanguineEmpiricist 18 May 2015 11:58:19PM *  -1 points [-]

Part of the reason it is losing steam is there is a small quantity of posters that post wayyyy too much using up everyone's time and they hardly contribute anything. Too many contrarians.

We have a lot of regular haters that could use some toning down.