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
It’s getting increasingly easy to farm karma on LessWrong by making almost substantive-less posts that just articulate a position most people agree with.
https://x.com/eris_nerung/status/2016317953264807947
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317180 (much much more in the discussions)
https://x.com/RokoMijic/status/2021202750462362026
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dkrfGqJrGRx2HsLpe/rafael-harth-s-shortform?commentId=mXFZzaaj3Y4qixnAC