Agreed. Systematic instrumental rationality is what we’re interested in. Better general methods. Akrasia and the problem of internal conflicts, fits this template; but making better coffee does not, however useful you may find it.
Could anyone here recommend areas where one could attempt to discuss some of society’s more pressing issues using the very general methods described here? Politics and making better coffee?
While I agree such posts would not fit here, such discussions would serve as practice. If the community were similar to this one, ideally hard evidence and constructive criticism would be the norm.
Assuming promoted articles are subject to your veto, I don’t see much harm in original posts of exceptional quality, even if they are either overly meta-LW or overly domain specific. Of course, one must draw the line at pictures of kittens.
Agreed. Systematic instrumental rationality is what we’re interested in. Better general methods. Akrasia and the problem of internal conflicts, fits this template; but making better coffee does not, however useful you may find it.
This is indeed a deep rabbit hole.
Could anyone here recommend areas where one could attempt to discuss some of society’s more pressing issues using the very general methods described here? Politics and making better coffee?
While I agree such posts would not fit here, such discussions would serve as practice. If the community were similar to this one, ideally hard evidence and constructive criticism would be the norm.
Assuming promoted articles are subject to your veto, I don’t see much harm in original posts of exceptional quality, even if they are either overly meta-LW or overly domain specific. Of course, one must draw the line at pictures of kittens.
Are we really bad enough at voting that we can’t be trusted to downvote pictures of kittens?
I’m not certain that anyone can very reliably be trusted to downvote e.g. the failcat sequence.
Come on, if that doesn’t demonstrate a relevant failure of rationality I don’t know what does.
ETA: (insert standard convention for tagging this as an attempt at humor)