WHY ISN’T THERE AN OPTION FOR NONE SO I CAN SIGNAL MY OBVIOUS OBJECTIVITY WITH MINIMAL EFFORT
This is why I didn’t vote on the politics question.
This is a sign that most Less Wrongers continue to neglect the very basics of rationality and are incapable of judging how much evidence they have on a given issue. Veterans of the site do no better than newbies on this measure.
Theory: People use this site as a geek / intellectual social outlet and/or insight porn and/or self-help site more than they seriously try to get progressively better at rationality. At least, I know that applies to me :).
[ ] Wow, these people are smart. [ ] Wow, these people are dumb. [ ] Wow, these people are freaky. [ ] That’s a good way of putting it, I’ll remember that.
(For me, it’s all of the above. “Insight porn” is probably the biggest, but it doesn’t dominate.)
Theory: People use this site as a geek / intellectual social outlet and/or insight porn and/or self-help site more than they seriously try to get progressively better at rationality.
Is that actually nonobvious? It’s sure as hell what I’m here for. I mean, I do actually generally want to be more rational about stuff, but I can’t get that by reading a website. Inculcating better habits and reflexes requires long hours spent on practicing better habits and reflexes so I can move the stuff System 2 damn well knows already down into System 1.
This is why I didn’t vote on the politics question.
Theory: People use this site as a geek / intellectual social outlet and/or insight porn and/or self-help site more than they seriously try to get progressively better at rationality. At least, I know that applies to me :).
This definitely belongs on the next survey!
Why do you read LessWrong? [ ] Rationality improvement [ ] Insight Porn [ ] Geek Social Fuzzies [ ] Self-Help Fuzzies [ ] Self-Help Utilons [ ] I enjoy reading the posts
And then check if the “rationality improvement” people do better on calibration. (I’m guessing they don’t.)
[ ] Wow, these people are smart. [ ] Wow, these people are dumb. [ ] Wow, these people are freaky. [ ] That’s a good way of putting it, I’ll remember that.
(For me, it’s all of the above. “Insight porn” is probably the biggest, but it doesn’t dominate.)
[x] All of the above
Is that actually nonobvious? It’s sure as hell what I’m here for. I mean, I do actually generally want to be more rational about stuff, but I can’t get that by reading a website. Inculcating better habits and reflexes requires long hours spent on practicing better habits and reflexes so I can move the stuff System 2 damn well knows already down into System 1.