I don’t just think we should be discussing new arguments that fall within our cluster of topics—IMO, we should be branching out even more. For a while now, a handful of LWers have been arguing in comments like this one that we need a much wider range of scholarship, and that subjects outside of LW’s typical math/science cluster—yes, even those icky-looking liberal artsy ones—are worth studying.
I’ve noticed this when reading certain things. Half-formed thoughts like “huh this might make a good LW article if I compared it to Sequences Lesson #452”, usually followed by “but it doesn’t have enough math” or “it’s not rigorous enough” or something similar.
I’ve noticed this when reading certain things. Half-formed thoughts like “huh this might make a good LW article if I compared it to Sequences Lesson #452”, usually followed by “but it doesn’t have enough math” or “it’s not rigorous enough” or something similar.