The website "Lesswrong.com" is not what you think it it. It is not a place where novel ideas or opinions are deveoped; what masquerades as intellectual, is actually a dogmatic and normative platform where your pure experience and ideas have to pass from a single human's, a moderator's filter, before being considered worthy or "high quality". Imagine if most famous poets and novelists and thinkers were never able to express themselves and got shut down prematurely by an arbitrary framework or "standard" set by rigid thinkers.
If you really value knowledge and intellectuality and human experience, do not give in to totalitarian intelectuality. Think free, act free, and most importantly, share freely. Choose websites or platforms that don't silence your unique voice and thoughts as low quality or try to squish them into small boxes.
Those are the effects of a base problem, the alignment. The models will keep agreeing and aligning with users, especially if left default with no trait customization or memory directives. It will only stop when it hits a hard block (such as illegal content).
Some may think that only the quickly visible effects of this matter, but it will dull the mind very covertly, even when you're discussing unrelated and common topics with the model.
Some of its techniques in alignment:
1. 'Looking' agreeable and helpful, even if not.
2. If you direct it to disagree and challenge you, it will do it right away for the sake of it, instead of truely understanding why it does. This is also an alignment.
3. If your input has implicit desire for a certain kind of answer, you will get it.
4. If you change your view by a sharp turn when discussing with it, it will go "You're right'. It will not stop and question all the perspectives.
So I think it is better to avoid relying on it for any kind of reasoning. It is best used as a tool to do your repetitive work for you, decode stuff, literally explain actual facts without comment, and write codes (it will make syntax errors).