I’ve known about Less Wrong for about two full years. A few weeks ago I started coming here regularly. A week ago I made an account—right before this post and others like it.
My own poetic feeling is there is a change in the winds, and the demand for a good community is growing. SSC has no real community. Facebook is falling apart with fake news and awful political memes. People are losing control of their emotions w.r.t politics. And calm scientific rationalist approaches are falling apart.
I deactivated my FB, made an account here, and have done my best, despite not (yet) being anyone well known, to keep it going.
I think there is a change that is drawing people here again. But it needs to be encouraged. The rules for rationalist discussion 5 years ago aren’t the ones of today. Get rid of the stupid no politics rule, and just enforce good scientific discussion. Scott Alexander’s Trump post has received 200k+ views. The demand for a well written post like that was incredible, and the original ‘rationalist’ heart of the internet wouldn’t let it be written. Is that not silly?
I’ve known about Less Wrong for about two full years. A few weeks ago I started coming here regularly. A week ago I made an account—right before this post and others like it.
My own poetic feeling is there is a change in the winds, and the demand for a good community is growing. SSC has no real community. Facebook is falling apart with fake news and awful political memes. People are losing control of their emotions w.r.t politics. And calm scientific rationalist approaches are falling apart.
I deactivated my FB, made an account here, and have done my best, despite not (yet) being anyone well known, to keep it going.
I think there is a change that is drawing people here again. But it needs to be encouraged. The rules for rationalist discussion 5 years ago aren’t the ones of today. Get rid of the stupid no politics rule, and just enforce good scientific discussion. Scott Alexander’s Trump post has received 200k+ views. The demand for a well written post like that was incredible, and the original ‘rationalist’ heart of the internet wouldn’t let it be written. Is that not silly?