Open Thread Winter 2025/26
13AugBro
5Screwtape
2ConformalInfinity
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Hello All,
New to LW and still reading through the intro material and getting a hang of the place. I am ashamed to admit I found this place through Reddit - ashamed because I despise Reddit and other social media.
I came here because I cannot find a place to engage in long form discussions about ideas contrary to my own. I dream of a free speech platform where only form is policed, not content. Allowing any idea to be voiced no matter how fringe as long as it adheres to agreed upon epistemic standards.
Anyways, I know LW probably is not that place but it is adjacent. It seems most people here want to discuss AI research but hoping to find some communities outside of that topic.
1Hello and welcome! There's a few of us around who discuss things other than AI research, myself among them. I suggest looking at the filtering options for the front page; it's the gear next to Latest, Enriched, Recommended, and Bookmarks. I filter the AI tag pretty heavily down.
If you want to lean into voicing fringe ideas around here, I'd suggest reading the LessWrong Political Prerequisites and maybe Basics of Rationalist Discourse. They're not universally agreed upon, but I think they do make for a decent pointer to the local standards.
Hello, I am an entity interested in mathematics! I'm interested in many of the topics common to LessWrong, like AI and decision theory. I would be interested in discussing these things in the anomalously civil environment which is LessWrong, and I am curious to find out how they might interface with the more continuous areas of mathematics I find familiar. I am also interested in how to correctly understand reality and rationality.