I have also taken this survey.
Yep, that's a pretty good TL;DR.
So, what I'm getting from your comment is that yall've tried to ban the problem child(ren), but couldn't make it stick? Mmm. Well, I wish you the best of luck on that front!
[epistemic status: I was going to do a lot of research for this post, but I decided not to as there are no sources on the internet so I'd have to interview people directly and I'd rather have this post be imperfect than never exist.]
Many words have been written about how LessWrong is now shit. Opinions vary about how shit exactly it is. I refer you to http://lesswrong.com/lw/n0l/lesswrong_20/ and http://lesswrong.com/lw/o5z/on_the_importance_of_less_wrong_or_another_single/ for more comments about LessWrong being shit and the LessWrong diaspora being suboptimal.
However, how to make LessWrong stop being shit seems remarkably simple to me. Here are the steps to resurrect it:
1. Get Eliezer: The lifeblood of LessWrong is Eliezer Yudkowsky's writing.... (read 423 more words →)
Good thing this community died for entirely unrelated reasons, then!
And if you think you can explain the concept of "systematically underestimated inferential distances" briefly, in just a few words, I've got some sad news for you...
"This is going to take a while to explain."
Did I do it? Did I win rationalism?!
In the comment he links to above, djc states "One way that philosophy makes progress is when people work in relative isolation, figuring out the consequences of assumptions rather than arguing about them. The isolation usually leads to mistakes and reinventions, but it also leads to new ideas."
When asked about LessWrong in a reddit AMA, David Chalmers stated "i think having subcommunities of this sort that make their own distinctive assumptions is an important mechanism of philosophical progress" and an interest in TDT/UDT.
(See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/06/notes-from-the-asilomar-conference-on-beneficial-ai/)
(Sorry to dox you, David Chalmers. Hope you're doing well these days.)
I liked this post, because it reminded me of how virtuous I am for breaking free of the useless distractions I've broken free of!