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I'm happy to see this in the preface (where EY looks back and details what he thinks he did wrong): "Today I would write more courteously, I think. The discour
by Kutta 12y ago
I'm happy to see this in the preface (where EY looks back and details what he thinks he did wrong):
"Today I would write more courteously, I think. The discourtesy did serve a function, and I think there were people who were helped by reading it; but I now take more seriously the risk of building communities where the normal and expected reaction to low-status outsider views is open mockery and contempt.
Despite my mistake, I am happy to say that my readership has so far been amazingly good about not using my rhetoric as an excuse to bully or belittle others. (I want to single out Scott Alexander in particular here, who is a nicer person than I am and an increasingly amazing writer on these topics, and may deserve a part of the credit for making the culture of Less Wrong a healthy one.)"
- gwern 12y agoFor those interested in Scott: his LW posts can be found at http://lesswrong.com/user/Yvain/submitted/ http://lesswrong.com/user/Yvain/submitted/ , his old blog at http://squid314.livejournal.com/ http://squid314.livejournal.com/ , his new blog at http://slatestarcodex.com/ http://slatestarcodex.com/ , and a tumblr for shorter things at http://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/ http://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/ If you're not sure where to start, a number of his writings have been received well on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=slatestarcodex&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=slatestarcodex&sort=byPopulari...