In general I’m concerned with the way the community is headed—I joined for the philosophy, I’m less interested in reading about analytic people’s approaches to basic social interaction. Some days I feel like this site has gone from Less Wrong to Wrong Planet.
I joined for the same reason, but since I maintain a Stoic stance I’m actually very comfortable with my philosophy impinging on my practical considerations. Philosophy need not be impractical (although I agree that some things, like “rational gift buying for persons 8 or under”, are too disconnected from the philosophy espoused here that it would be best we didn’t encourage those kinds of posts).
My impression is that sometimes there are more epistemic or otherwise technical articles, and sometimes there are more instrumental rationality articles. I don’t have a feeling for whether it’s mostly random variation, or if articles of one sort tends to inspire more of the same until people run out of ideas and/or get sick of it.
I joined for the same reason, but since I maintain a Stoic stance I’m actually very comfortable with my philosophy impinging on my practical considerations. Philosophy need not be impractical (although I agree that some things, like “rational gift buying for persons 8 or under”, are too disconnected from the philosophy espoused here that it would be best we didn’t encourage those kinds of posts).
My impression is that sometimes there are more epistemic or otherwise technical articles, and sometimes there are more instrumental rationality articles. I don’t have a feeling for whether it’s mostly random variation, or if articles of one sort tends to inspire more of the same until people run out of ideas and/or get sick of it.