It seems to me like the role of LessWrong should be to produce new ideas and be at the cutting edge. It’s not a place that’s valuable as a venue for hearing the same ideas from elsewhere repeated without much filtering.
But we already filter more than the reference class of smart Internet people, that’s the point. cousin_it argues, and I agree, that this community may already be on the extreme of “filters too carefully in the face of the need for urgent updates”. We did well by taking COVID-19 seriously before it was proven, and we could have done still better on that front.
It seems to me like the role of LessWrong should be to produce new ideas and be at the cutting edge. It’s not a place that’s valuable as a venue for hearing the same ideas from elsewhere repeated without much filtering.
But we already filter more than the reference class of smart Internet people, that’s the point. cousin_it argues, and I agree, that this community may already be on the extreme of “filters too carefully in the face of the need for urgent updates”. We did well by taking COVID-19 seriously before it was proven, and we could have done still better on that front.