If you look at big issues for this community like dealing with Xrisk where low probabilities are involved the standard skeptic response is to see the evidence for the Xrisks not being up to the standards of evidence.
The sequences make arguments about taking positions on topics like cryonics or the Many World Hypothesis that don’t fall in line with those of the skeptic community but are taking based on different epistemics.
You had people in the skeptic community nominating Elon Musk for the Luddite Award. It makes a lot of sense from the perspective of the skeptic community to do that and at the same time it’s very hard from a LessWrong perspective to see that nomination making sense.
Those are excellent points. Maybe it doesn’t apply to the community as a whole, but I still think there are a greater proportion of people with the archetypal skeptical mindset in the LW community than the general population. But in any case, my aim was to discuss the limits of skepticism; how widespread it is on LW is a side point.
If you look at big issues for this community like dealing with Xrisk where low probabilities are involved the standard skeptic response is to see the evidence for the Xrisks not being up to the standards of evidence.
The sequences make arguments about taking positions on topics like cryonics or the Many World Hypothesis that don’t fall in line with those of the skeptic community but are taking based on different epistemics.
You had people in the skeptic community nominating Elon Musk for the Luddite Award. It makes a lot of sense from the perspective of the skeptic community to do that and at the same time it’s very hard from a LessWrong perspective to see that nomination making sense.
Those are excellent points. Maybe it doesn’t apply to the community as a whole, but I still think there are a greater proportion of people with the archetypal skeptical mindset in the LW community than the general population. But in any case, my aim was to discuss the limits of skepticism; how widespread it is on LW is a side point.