I feel a lettuce questioning photosynthesis, but
LessWrong users can agree within ±10% on what the site’s main goal is, if asked to assign probabilities to each possible function (epistemic, social, pedagogical, etc).
-Would you take this bet?
I feel a lettuce questioning photosynthesis, but
LessWrong users can agree within ±10% on what the site’s main goal is, if asked to assign probabilities to each possible function (epistemic, social, pedagogical, etc).
-Would you take this bet?
I’ll take the don’t, and lay long odds. There’s a diversity of reasons that posters, commenters, and readers (different overlapping groups of distinct individuals) spend time and energy here. And that only partially matches what the site organizers think they’re trying to do (which also probably isn’t singular).
Note: this is a feature, not a bug. HUMANS (and probably AI, when it gets better) have a diversity of goals across individuals and timeframes. Trying to simplify it to one legible thing fails to model reality very well.
Yes! Many goals, but do you have priorities among those goals?