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Reading LessWrong but not winning

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I've associated myself with LessWrong, and the rationalist community, for several years. It was one of the two communities I felt like I vaguely belonged to. I saw a tweet recently: I think LW overly weights their epistemology in their successes & under-accounts for their single-minded relentlessness. The epistemology is above average, but not as good as they think it is. Relentless meta-game is excellent, tho, even if might not be good enough to eat itself — @meditationstuff, 2020-12-26 Here is how I feel about it: LW, as a community and a body of work, is popular—and this is a success. LW is good at entertainingly explaining philosophy and psychology in a way that works for computer nerds, who in their turn currently happen to have lots of money and cultural influence. LW, as Eliezer's project to get people to think and care about AI risk, is also a success. However, in terms of bringing success to its members, LW is probably a big failure. Reading LW but not winning should be approx

Reading LessWrong but not winning Reading LessWrong but not winning I've associated myself with LessWrong, and the rationalist community, for several years. It was one of the two communities I felt like I vaguely belonged to. I saw a tweet recently: I think LW overly weights their epistemology in their successes & under-accounts for their single-minded relentlessness. The epistemology is above average, but not as good as they think it is. Relentless meta-game is excellent, tho, even if might not be good enough to eat itself — @meditationstuff, 2020-12-26 Here is how I feel about it: LW, as a c

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