The problem with filter bubbles is more about disagreement getting filtered out, not topics being filtered out. We’re forced to filter very aggressively for topics anyway, just because there are too many topics and if we didn’t filter close to 100% of the uninteresting topics we’d never have time for the interesting ones.
In other words, “X is potentially valuable and important” can be applied to EA, but it can also be applied to a random guy blogging about how much it sucks that his garage band broke up, as well as a near-infinite amount of other topics.
That is true with an assumption. The assumption is that I will regularly return to LessWrong and read EA articles if I see them. My own assessment of myself is that I won’t, so the assumption would be false. (I could be wrong.) I generally avoid EA articles because I’m not all that interested in them. No knock on the field, it’s just not why I’m here. But the fact that I have to wade through articles on EA and all the other topics I don’t care about deters me from returning to LessWrong, which I do less frequently than I wish I would, because I miss the optimal time to comment on articles.
The problem with filter bubbles is more about disagreement getting filtered out, not topics being filtered out. We’re forced to filter very aggressively for topics anyway, just because there are too many topics and if we didn’t filter close to 100% of the uninteresting topics we’d never have time for the interesting ones.
In other words, “X is potentially valuable and important” can be applied to EA, but it can also be applied to a random guy blogging about how much it sucks that his garage band broke up, as well as a near-infinite amount of other topics.
That is true with an assumption. The assumption is that I will regularly return to LessWrong and read EA articles if I see them. My own assessment of myself is that I won’t, so the assumption would be false. (I could be wrong.) I generally avoid EA articles because I’m not all that interested in them. No knock on the field, it’s just not why I’m here. But the fact that I have to wade through articles on EA and all the other topics I don’t care about deters me from returning to LessWrong, which I do less frequently than I wish I would, because I miss the optimal time to comment on articles.