TBF I feel like at most if LessWrong really is drifting (it’s hard for me to say as I’m a relatively late joiner) the worst it’s doing is being less interesting to read. I don’t see a lot of harm coming from it right now; there are parts of the rationalist adjacent/derived community that I find reprehensible or even dangerous, but none of them are particularly represented here. If the worst that can happen is that the big thing simply waters itself down and dies with a whimper, that’s probably as good as it gets.
TBF I feel like at most if LessWrong really is drifting (it’s hard for me to say as I’m a relatively late joiner) the worst it’s doing is being less interesting to read. I don’t see a lot of harm coming from it right now; there are parts of the rationalist adjacent/derived community that I find reprehensible or even dangerous, but none of them are particularly represented here. If the worst that can happen is that the big thing simply waters itself down and dies with a whimper, that’s probably as good as it gets.