A year and half later, I see very few LW posts that follow the advice offered in this post. Do people think it’s a problem that we rarely respond to posts at other rationalist blogs? Should we try to do it more often?
Ha, I saw this comment and subsequently this post accidentally while searching through your submissions to find your post on metaphilosophical mysteries to link to in a comment on Robin’s post about the meaning of the meaning of life.
But anyway, is there a list anywhere of other rationalist blogs/forums? Maybe if such a list were created then people would add such blogs into their RSS feeds, or participate in the forums (though the latter is less likely). Michael Anissimov’s blog, Overcoming Bias, GNXP, and Roissy’s blog are the other rationalist blogs in my feed at the moment. Others, like your own, Steven0461′s, and Philosophy Etc., don’t seem to update very often. The Everything List seems pretty much dead or irrelevant. Two blogs that come to mind that I should subscribe to are Scott Aaronson’s and Shane Legg’s. Marginal Revolution isn’t my thing but I’m sure others here would enjoy it. Same with Practical Ethics. Do you know of others?
I notice we tend not to interact with the New Atheists or places like RationalWiki, mostly because there’s not much to learn from them. I came here from RW and when I visit there from time to time there’s really nothing interesting any more. The emphasis on reversed stupidity gets old. (But it’s cool that they’re way chiller and less pretentious.) Still, perhaps we could at least spend some effort evangelizing in such forums? If so, I heavily recommend against bringing up cryonics, the Singularity, et cetera, but I think that would be the average Less Wronger’s natural reaction because it is a case study in when naive traditional rationality and scientific majoritarianism fail to find the most relevant questions. The whole thing is difficult to navigate.
A year and half later, I see very few LW posts that follow the advice offered in this post. Do people think it’s a problem that we rarely respond to posts at other rationalist blogs? Should we try to do it more often?
Ha, I saw this comment and subsequently this post accidentally while searching through your submissions to find your post on metaphilosophical mysteries to link to in a comment on Robin’s post about the meaning of the meaning of life.
But anyway, is there a list anywhere of other rationalist blogs/forums? Maybe if such a list were created then people would add such blogs into their RSS feeds, or participate in the forums (though the latter is less likely). Michael Anissimov’s blog, Overcoming Bias, GNXP, and Roissy’s blog are the other rationalist blogs in my feed at the moment. Others, like your own, Steven0461′s, and Philosophy Etc., don’t seem to update very often. The Everything List seems pretty much dead or irrelevant. Two blogs that come to mind that I should subscribe to are Scott Aaronson’s and Shane Legg’s. Marginal Revolution isn’t my thing but I’m sure others here would enjoy it. Same with Practical Ethics. Do you know of others?
I notice we tend not to interact with the New Atheists or places like RationalWiki, mostly because there’s not much to learn from them. I came here from RW and when I visit there from time to time there’s really nothing interesting any more. The emphasis on reversed stupidity gets old. (But it’s cool that they’re way chiller and less pretentious.) Still, perhaps we could at least spend some effort evangelizing in such forums? If so, I heavily recommend against bringing up cryonics, the Singularity, et cetera, but I think that would be the average Less Wronger’s natural reaction because it is a case study in when naive traditional rationality and scientific majoritarianism fail to find the most relevant questions. The whole thing is difficult to navigate.