While it’s a fair point that this forum has a lot of noise and nonsense, the amount of insights not easily available elsewhere easily justifies spending some of my time here for me. It only takes a moment to ignore/downvote posts you don’t care for, anyway. YMMV.
It’s not just the material there, but the references to material elsewhere that pay dividends.
I came here out of interest towards references to Jaynes and Korzybski. People who take those guys seriously are ahead of the curve, IMO. So they also take Cialdini and Kahneman seriously. And Hugh Everett. And some of them, Mencius Moldbug.
All guys with valuable insights.
I don’t share the fascination over Newcomb problems either. So I don’t read them. End of problem. Seems like the OP is busy looking for what he doesn’t value, instead of what he does. That’s too bad for him. This place is a nexus of a lot of good ideas.
While it’s a fair point that this forum has a lot of noise and nonsense, the amount of insights not easily available elsewhere easily justifies spending some of my time here for me. It only takes a moment to ignore/downvote posts you don’t care for, anyway. YMMV.
It’s not just the material there, but the references to material elsewhere that pay dividends.
I came here out of interest towards references to Jaynes and Korzybski. People who take those guys seriously are ahead of the curve, IMO. So they also take Cialdini and Kahneman seriously. And Hugh Everett. And some of them, Mencius Moldbug.
All guys with valuable insights.
I don’t share the fascination over Newcomb problems either. So I don’t read them. End of problem. Seems like the OP is busy looking for what he doesn’t value, instead of what he does. That’s too bad for him. This place is a nexus of a lot of good ideas.