This is why we have both agree/disagree and like/dislike on comments :)
Communication often takes effort, and it's great that rationalists are often willing to put in the work. But sometimes I don't need a 2,000 word comment or a 5-hour conversation; it's just a waste of my time.
This. Sometimes I feel that LW articles come off as borderline pretentious. Not everything needs an essay - especially not one packed with overly formal language.
I find that as soon as you start to implement this advice, you start to run into significant problems.
From my experience, a lot of times it's actually quite hard to talk about the requirements.
To give 2 examples:
How are you i.e. supposed to question business assumptions as an engineer?
How are you supposed to question the requirements about sth so ambiguous as the DX of the API you are supposed to work on, where everyone may have a different opinion?
I wouldn't focus on nationalism all too much here, I feel like it's bikesheding. It seems to me like nationalism is just how regions <-> EU tension looks like, because this is how Europe is structured right now. Almost each political body is its own nation. Ofc, this makes possible conflicts even more brutal, because it's easier to dehumanize people with whom you can't communicate with. That being said nationalism is not the core dynamics here. Instead I would say that nationalism is just the way how fragmentation looks like in this setup and what we are really seeing here are reactionary forces to the progressive federalisation.
And they have their merits. Think of one of the divisions that have been mentioned - center vs border split.
The European Union looks to many like something that could become an empire, where the center slowly drains and uses peripheries, slowly degrading the standards of living there.
Unifying political bodies is risky as it may marginalize you. Think of the Appalachian region and Detroit in the US, I am pretty sure they would never push for deindustrialization.
This feels like a hole in LessWrong in general that would seem to be worth addressing. Maybe a general initiative for synthesis on various topics should be created, not just about COVID?
It is definitely AI assisted. It makes it quite annoying to read because certain paragraphs feel like they're just copied from chatgpt. But no, article as a whole isn't just a copied chatgpt essay.