This explains something that’s been bothering me. I started reading lesswrong very recently, though I would have been aware of some less than generous caricatures of the community for a long time prior. Initially when I started reading the Sequences I was pleasantly shocked, thinking that a community based off these principles would be incredibly useful and productive. I hope I don’t come across too harshly when I say that I don’t know so far that everything I’ve read in the sort of general rationalsphere has reflected the utopian productive discussion I had briefly anticipated. The distinction between the material I have found good and enlightening and that which I have found hard to engage with or unconvincing and sophistic does somewhat correlate with your stick/non-stick division.
Not to say that I’m rejecting rationalist discourse on political or abstract matters out of hand, but this does help me understand why I’ve maybe updated less on much of it than expected.
This explains something that’s been bothering me. I started reading lesswrong very recently, though I would have been aware of some less than generous caricatures of the community for a long time prior. Initially when I started reading the Sequences I was pleasantly shocked, thinking that a community based off these principles would be incredibly useful and productive. I hope I don’t come across too harshly when I say that I don’t know so far that everything I’ve read in the sort of general rationalsphere has reflected the utopian productive discussion I had briefly anticipated. The distinction between the material I have found good and enlightening and that which I have found hard to engage with or unconvincing and sophistic does somewhat correlate with your stick/non-stick division.
Not to say that I’m rejecting rationalist discourse on political or abstract matters out of hand, but this does help me understand why I’ve maybe updated less on much of it than expected.