“I would help, but I suck at researching papers to compare LW stuff with mainstream science, so I can’t really do much.”
Unfortunately, I might also want to post that (for mostly status reasons) if I wouldn’t help, which makes the information content near-zero and qualifies as noise.
Unless it’s a meta post explaining why I wasn’t posting and that I think many other users might judge themselves unable to help.
“I would help, but I suck at researching papers to compare LW stuff with mainstream science, so I can’t really do much.”
Unfortunately, I might also want to post that (for mostly status reasons) if I wouldn’t help, which makes the information content near-zero and qualifies as noise.
Unless it’s a meta post explaining why I wasn’t posting and that I think many other users might judge themselves unable to help.