Any group with a lot of people and without the strictest filtering will have displays of horrendous epistemology, I think one can judge LessWrong by whether popular posts with bad epistemology have it called out in the comments, and I’d say that’s mostly the case
every now and then i give LW a shot and every single time i end up slamming facefirst into a piece of Jargon explained over a five thousand words article that could have been a single sentence
The people involved all seem very… Full of themselves ? They don’t really ever show a sense of ‘hey, I’ve got a thought, maybe I haven’t considered all angles to it, maybe I’m wrong—but here it is’. The type of people that would be embarrassed to not have an opinion on a topic or say ‘I don’t know’ — contrarian1234
Collecting occurrences of people complaining about LW
Skimmed twitter.search(
lesswrong -lesswrong.com -roko -from:grok -grok since:2026-01-01 until:2026-01-28)negative
https://x.com/fluxtheorist/status/2015642426606600246
https://x.com/repligate/status/2011670780577530024 compares pedantic terminology complaint by peer reviewer of some paper to LW.
https://x.com/kave_rennedy/status/2011131987168542835
https://x.com/Kaustubh102/status/2010703086512378307 first post rejected; claims not written by LLM, but rejection may be because “you did not chat extensively with LLMs to help you generate the ideas.”
positive
During my search, it was hard to ignore the positive comments. So here are some examples of positive comments too.
https://x.com/boazbaraktcs/status/2016403406202806581
https://x.com/joshycodes/status/2009423714685989320
https://x.com/TutorVals/status/2008474014839390312
otherwise interesting
https://x.com/RyanPGreenblatt/status/2008623582235242821
https://x.com/nearcyan/status/2010945226114994591
Hope you’re ready to write 10,000 replies ;-)
https://x.com/eris_nerung/status/2016317953264807947
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317180 (much much more in the discussions)