People have some kind of tendency to believe that if a conversation happens on the internet, it isn’t very important or worthwhile. Surely the only important and worthwhile words are written in high-status media like books and journal articles. And the only important and worthwhile conversations happen in the offices of tenured professors at prestigious universities, not in the open thread of some obscure group blog.
Do you think the LW users in question are guilty of this?
Never mind that many useful concepts introduced in LW-sphere blog posts (“ugh fields”, “moloch”, “pulling the rope sideways”, “Pascal’s mugging”) have entered the broader lexicon of hundreds or thousands of 130+ IQ high-income do-gooders.
This is compatible with the belief than most of the marginal benefit of spending time on LessWrong is entertainment.
Do you think the LW users in question are guilty of this?
This is compatible with the belief than most of the marginal benefit of spending time on LessWrong is entertainment.