edit to clarify: I’m interested in what caused this. My guess is that it’s approximately that a bunch of nerds on a website isn’t enough to automatically have good intellectual culture, even if some of them are sufficiently careful. But if it’s recent, I want to know what happened.
Correct, it wasn’t recent (though it also wasn’t a single decision, just a relatively continuous process whereby I engaged with fewer and fewer topics on LW as they seemed more and more doomed).
In terms of what caused me to give up, it’s just my experience engaging with LW? It’s not hard to see how tribalism and sensationalism drive LW group epistemics (on both the “optimist” and “pessimist” “sides”). Idk what the underlying causes are, I didn’t particularly try to find out. If I were trying to find out, I’d start by looking at changes after Death with Dignity was published.
I predict this wasn’t recent, am I correct?
edit to clarify: I’m interested in what caused this. My guess is that it’s approximately that a bunch of nerds on a website isn’t enough to automatically have good intellectual culture, even if some of them are sufficiently careful. But if it’s recent, I want to know what happened.
Correct, it wasn’t recent (though it also wasn’t a single decision, just a relatively continuous process whereby I engaged with fewer and fewer topics on LW as they seemed more and more doomed).
In terms of what caused me to give up, it’s just my experience engaging with LW? It’s not hard to see how tribalism and sensationalism drive LW group epistemics (on both the “optimist” and “pessimist” “sides”). Idk what the underlying causes are, I didn’t particularly try to find out. If I were trying to find out, I’d start by looking at changes after Death with Dignity was published.