I don’t think anyone at SI agrees with you about Less Wrong’s mission. The site is supposed to be about rationality. There is hope (and track record) of the Less Wrong rationality community having helpful spinoffs for SI’s mission, but those benefits depend on it having its own independent life and mission. An open forum on rationality and a closed board for donors to a charity aren’t close substitutes for one another.
I don’t think anyone at SI agrees with you about Less Wrong’s mission. The site is supposed to be about rationality. There is hope (and track record) of the Less Wrong rationality community having helpful spinoffs for SI’s mission, but those benefits depend on it having its own independent life and mission. An open forum on rationality and a closed board for donors to a charity aren’t close substitutes for one another.