This seems like an overly idyllic reading of this site. There's a lot of good things about this site but there are very silly cultural quirks, such as the ways

This seems like an overly idyllic reading of this site. There's a lot of good things about this site but there are very silly cultural quirks, such as the ways people structure their posts/arguments, what people tend to value, and maybe more importantly that amidst the very high quality comments there are a lot of confidently false/incorrect ones that rise to the top (of course, that also means you shouldn't take this post as the truth either). I appreciate that this community prioritizes logical reasoning, but often the "rationalist" mentality just turns into searching for ways to rationalize an existing viewpoint. It reminds me of Less Wrong, though at least here there's less of a cult-like worshipping of the "core literature" and its authors, so maybe that's the silver lining.