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polymathwannabe comments on Open Thread April 4 - April 10, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 April 2016 06:04:21PM 18 points [-]

Sorry to complain, but I opened the site to see what was going on, and Main has gone to utter crap.

"Is spirituality irrational?" and "3 reasons it's irrational to demand 'rationalism' in social-justice activism" are now heavily-commented recent posts in Main. Meanwhile, "Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People" was published a short while ago, and nothing about it appears on this site.

Looks like this site has slid into the River of Low Domain-Knowledge, Easy-to-Discuss General Stuff, rather than staying up in the nice Forest of Stuff LW Purports to be About.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 04 April 2016 07:31:07PM *  8 points [-]

Don't apologize. I've been waiting for weeks for someone to complain, to make sure that it wasn't just me who felt this was an actual problem.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 April 2016 10:42:36PM 5 points [-]

Evaporative cooling. Since LW now seems to have less of the stuff that made LW unique, and more Other Internet Stuff, I've been browsing LW less often.