Hello all,
This is sort of a random topic, but I've been looking at various online communities and was struck by how pessimistic and negative many are. I perceived this most notably on reddit, but some other places are like this too-- there seems to be a general aura of discontent, an attitude that society in general is corrupt, and so on. Does anyone know why?
Are you sure that LW is that different? How much time is spent complaining about the lack of rationality in the general public, or discussing how common cognitive biases are? While nominally that helps us improve ourselves, a fair bit could be easily classified as negative.