No one is explicitly giving a link to the rules or stating an answer otherwise so let me word out what I gathered from the nonverbal feedback.

I have received -7 agreement within a few minutes of posting this. Me assuming "when not defined it must be free game" was tagged as locally invalid and I can see how this is true. In other words: English is the de facto language of the LessWrong forum if not only due to policy then at least due to custom.

I like the LW community and the feature of ForumMagnum/LW2 they developed a lot and I didn't even knew one can tag logical fallacies. I have a very specific goal in mind (not stated above) of publishing essays / longer ramblings that I sometimes happen to produce and usually pester my friends with. After considering a few alternatives I thought that this forum software is the most beautiful and most feature-rich place to post such things. The mismatch of language, tone, content and polish was something I was not sure how much of an issue it would be. The answer: yes it would be an issue.

Perhaps there's a personal space similar to Confluence where can publish longer essays not related to LW at all for the time being I move my ramblings to mataroa.blog/ and use this account only for LW realted things

Early on I politically only specialized in a few areas (digital sovereignty, privacy, computer security) and started being politically active in those areas. I actively decided that other areas such as climate change, housing, diet, ... are already focused on by many other activitst and I can probably do more good by specializing in some areas instead of trying to be well-read in all of them.

Personally I believe the need the be informed is only needed when I have the intent to act. I do intent to act on the new german ePA law and thus I inform myself and I do activism, I do not intent to act on home based heating laws and thus every effort into researching it beyond the basics would be wasted effort.

Ich suche ob es eine vorgegeben Sprache auf LessWrong.com gibt. Bisher habe ich lediglich die Beschreibung der Community auf Wikipedia gefunden und nicht soffizielles. Ich muss daher von ausgehen, dass ich auch Beiträge in Deutsch schreiben könnte.

I am looking for the site rule defining language on LessWrong.com. So far I have only found the description of the community on Wikipedia and nothing official. I must therefore assume that I could also write posts in german.

I think the open source link is outdated (I am not sure) I think it should be https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum

This very much speaks to me. I always played in hard mode. I loved it. It's an euphoric rage. Bull and Bear @ Wall Street. That's the feel.

Now I have burn out and struggled for 3 years.

Lol I think I am bipolar. If you love your work and fast cars and perhaps it's a little bit too much get yourself tested. Lmao

Thanks. Re-reading the quote and reading your answer really made it understand better. I think a year ago I misinterpret this. It's more on line of the free software movement and people saying "this sucks I will write a {OpenPGP, mutt, Patreon, Gmail, ...} to make this better"

Yes, IQ tests are medical measurements and they're helpful to medical practitioners. Yes IQ is only loosely related to what we call "intelligence" in the broader sense. The term "IQ" is really consufing because a) it does not measure intelligence and b) it's not a quotient.

Prejudice is a good word for describing this post. The article really tries to make the point of "we need less stupid people" without drilling into the "why" and without considering a basic ethical viewpoint.

The contents of this post seem unnecessary ableist to me. We're building a society for all people and thus statements like these carry a rather bad taste:

This could backfire horribly. We could see affirmative action for stupid people. Harvard would boast about how many stupid people it admitted.

This statement shames people which the article previously stamped as "stupid". People with disabilities have the same right to prosper just live everyone else. It seems to me that your post carries with it the assumption that "having less 'stupid' people" somehow translates to a better human condition. It's hard to see how shaming people who suffer from "disability" or "being stupid" translates to a better society. Perhaps it's exactly the opposite which helps society to prosper: accepting people with disabilities, giving them the resources they need, helping them to create policys and rules which help other people with the same disability etc.

Would you take a pill which alters your thinking patterns in a way some other person considers better? I'd argue that a lot of people don't suffer from "being stupid". Impairing normal functioning and being a source of suffering is necessary for something to be labelled desease[1], something which you did not showed.

Stupid people controlling technology and civilizations developed by smart people are an existential threat.

David Freedman is right. Believing in meritocracy also leads to believing that "smart people" should excert control over civilization and technology. This is in harsh contrast to democracy, where civilization should be directed and altered by the civilization itself (populus). When some part of the civilization is "stupid" then they should be equally represented in the governing system instead of favoring people deemed of correct "intelligence" or "age" or "religion".

people will argue that stupidity isn't any worse than being smart (much as some deaf activists claim that deafness is a culture, not a disability)

The linked article does not state that deafness is a culture but instead that deafness can be used as cultural identification. A very valid assumption given that deaf people have it far easier interacting with other deaf people and their media instead of non-deaf people.