This is about socially transmitted skills. Discourse norms are, but technical concepts like algebraic topology and whatever you’re trying to figure out in the first bullet aren’t.
Sure, you can have plenty of other goals, I’m not trying to refute that in any way.
People can have LessWrong culture while disagreeing with a lot of the things on here! This is about being familiar with the norms and knowing that the LessWrong ideas even exist at all, not getting people to believe them. The point about making mistakes that the Sequences caution against is a descriptive claim about an archetypical person who is new to the community, not a necessary condition.
This is about socially transmitted skills. Discourse norms are, but technical concepts like algebraic topology and whatever you’re trying to figure out in the first bullet aren’t.
Sure, you can have plenty of other goals, I’m not trying to refute that in any way.
People can have LessWrong culture while disagreeing with a lot of the things on here! This is about being familiar with the norms and knowing that the LessWrong ideas even exist at all, not getting people to believe them. The point about making mistakes that the Sequences caution against is a descriptive claim about an archetypical person who is new to the community, not a necessary condition.