I'm not sure. There's a bit of tension between LW-ish beliefs, which are mostly empiricist, and Eliezer's popularity, which I think owes more to his idealistic and poetic attitude coupled with high intelligence. Maybe people should learn more from the latter, rather than the former :-)
This thread is intended to provide a space for 'crazy' ideas. Ideas that spontaneously come to mind (and feel great), ideas you long wanted to tell but never found the place and time for and also for ideas you think should be obvious and simple - but nobody ever mentions them.
This thread itself is such an idea. Or rather the tangent of such an idea which I post below as a seed for this thread.
Rules for this thread:
If this should become a regular thread I suggest the following :