Over time I’ve developed an habit to stop and think about what I’m doing and in those instances I’ve frequently wondered: where am I wasting my time on? Have my actions so far been conducive to what I was actually expecting to achieve? I’ve insisted on remaining at this site (and on LesserWrong, after it debuted, and on others of a similar tint) despite lowering quality because those were the only communities with an explicit interest in both epistemic and instrumental rationality. I’ve always wondered whether they aren’t dragging Scott’s waterline down, somehow. Although article quality was, in general, higher here than on LW, commenters here have always been worse than there. Articles weren’t as insightful as before, it was easier to spot mistakes or slips on the arguments, strawman arguments were being made at least once every two weeks or so, but despite all this quality was still higher than on (by then, already defunct) LW, and I wasn’t aware of any 3rd site that was better than either, so I kept coming back, albeit at decreasing frequencies.Ĭommenters were always worse, though. I first noticed a downturn a few years ago. At the beginning I distinctly remember thinking of Scott as a genius, I rated him higher than EY, it was common to visit here once a week and being presented with new insights that’d leave me thinking for hours. I’ve been reading this blog for years now. Some positions are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, others are more open to people doing them remotely. They do very well-respected effective altruism work. GiveWell wants you to know that they’re hiring for some open positions. I wrote an article for the new Less Wrong site – A Less Wrong Crypto Autopsy.Ĥ. Can I convince Ilya and Chris to do an adversarial collaboration explaining what everyone agrees on in this area and what’s still controversial? If not, does anyone else who’s at least kind of an expert on this want to do it? Also a fun comment – this comment on how Karl Marx believed a weird pseudoscientific theory linking national character to soil quality.ģ. It starts here and continues for several hundred comments – go down to here if you want to start at the point where it gets interesting. Comment of the week is the really good (and really long) debate between algorithmic bias researcher Ilya Shpitser and algorithmic bias article writer Chris Stucchio. I don’t necessarily endorse all of these analyses and there’s some good pushback and additions in the comments.Ģ. See this post on top blog recommendations, this one on politics, personality, and religion, and these collected findings. Some other people have been doing their own analyses of the survey results. You can also talk at the SSC subreddit or the SSC Discord server. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. This is the bi-weekly visible open thread (there are also hidden open threads twice a week you can reach through the Open Thread tab on the top of the page).
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