Sure, maybe there’s some line here, but I think the kind of person who shows up to LessWrong is selected against the kind of person who would be happy and thrive in a traditional monastery.
My general take is that monasteries are good for some people, but for a bunch of reasons I’m not choosing to live in one, and that’s fine, I’m glad they exist for people with minds very different from mine, but also if I had reason to live in a monastery it would probably be fine, even if I wasn’t maximally happy about it.
Sure, maybe there’s some line here, but I think the kind of person who shows up to LessWrong is selected against the kind of person who would be happy and thrive in a traditional monastery.
My general take is that monasteries are good for some people, but for a bunch of reasons I’m not choosing to live in one, and that’s fine, I’m glad they exist for people with minds very different from mine, but also if I had reason to live in a monastery it would probably be fine, even if I wasn’t maximally happy about it.