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Less Wrong is a tentacular, all-encompassing organism that uses the word "rationalism" and "bayes theorem" in subtly overloaded senses as aesthetic ideals, life
by slashnull 12y ago
Less Wrong is a tentacular, all-encompassing organism that uses the word "rationalism" and "bayes theorem" in subtly overloaded senses as aesthetic ideals, life goals and in general as meliorative qualificatives.
It's one of the most polarizing and memetic thing to happen in popular philosophy and epistemology, and cultists typically end up moving into less sectarian areas of the internet pretty quickly.
LW has a culture that encourages and celebrates self-consciousness, and knowledge and correction of one's cognitive biases.
LW is a place where people have flame wars about epistemology. LW is a place where the participants of a given flame war adopt the logically correct conclusion reached through civilized and organised discussion.
LW is beautiful.
Let it go.
- BergljotHeida 12y agoIt's not beautiful it's sickening. "Pop philosophy" is ridiculous since philosophy is already digestible