I also approve of an off topic board, but for opposite reasons:
2b) I’m less interested in the other topics (singularity, technology, …) that people discuss here, preferring to keep LessWrong for rationality discussion.
3b) The broad range of topics we discuss at the moment attracts sci/tech enthusiasts who care less about rationality and so lower the quality of discussion.
Seconded, I would also like to separate the futurism from the rationality. Both are interesting, but the point of this forum is discussing rationality- yet threads about the singularity seem to be vastly more popular than, say threads about how to perform Bayesian inference in specific real situations.
I also approve of an off topic board, but for opposite reasons:
2b) I’m less interested in the other topics (singularity, technology, …) that people discuss here, preferring to keep LessWrong for rationality discussion.
3b) The broad range of topics we discuss at the moment attracts sci/tech enthusiasts who care less about rationality and so lower the quality of discussion.
Seconded, I would also like to separate the futurism from the rationality. Both are interesting, but the point of this forum is discussing rationality- yet threads about the singularity seem to be vastly more popular than, say threads about how to perform Bayesian inference in specific real situations.