I’ve been thinking on-and-off about starting a LessWrong spinoff around the self-improvement stuff (current name proposal: LessWeak). Is anyone else interested in that sort of thing? It’d be a bit like the Akrasia Tactics Review, but applied to more topics.
Instead of a spinoff, maybe Discussion should be split into more sections (one being primarily about instrumental rationality/self-help).
Topic-related discussion seems a good idea to me. Some here may be interested in rationality/cognitive bias but not in IA or not in space exploration or not in cryonics, …
This would also allow to lift the “bans” like “no politics”, if it says in a dedicated section not “polluting” those not interested in it.
Instead of a spinoff, maybe Discussion should be split into more sections (one being primarily about instrumental rationality/self-help).
Topic-related discussion seems a good idea to me. Some here may be interested in rationality/cognitive bias but not in IA or not in space exploration or not in cryonics, …
This would also allow to lift the “bans” like “no politics”, if it says in a dedicated section not “polluting” those not interested in it.
I endorse this idea.