Indeed, the "LessWrong diaspora" quite harmed this project -- we still haven't fully recovered from having the community split as much as it did, even though things have been improving a bit on that front more recently.
I won't claim to be deep on lesswrong lore but I don't understand what this means. As far as I can tell (from my admittedly very limited perspective) the only actual contributions to the world this community has had is to help people with self improvement and the EA movement.
Neither of these are harmed at all by people reading different blo...
I really think you made a mistake by going to a philosophy meetup instead of sports bars during a game. To me this implies you're in such a deep bubble you actually don't even know what a normie is at this point so I wouldn't get ahead of yourself classifying them. You had the correct instinct, but at no point here did you actually engage with a normie. At least do that before having an existential crisis and writing a long essay about them right?
Can't agree more. I've found this mindset to be super useful for health and weight loss journey. Anytime I encounter someone with a lot of rules that involve "trying" or "sometimes" it's pretty clear they're not gonna make it (and i've never seen a non drug-assisted exception to this)
I really think this is a case where one needs to provide pictures of themselves for this to be taken seriously. Similar to my preference that people "post body" if they're giving advice about fitness. I want to see proof of work. The brief self description doesn't sound cool or high status at all to me, and it seems counterproductive to take advice on coolness and status from someone that might be uncool and low status
I really like this post, this is the kind of content I come to this site for.
My feedback on your example:
This is the same game played by two married people wanting to have an affair right? That seems like a version of the game with much more data available and isn't as far out of people's lived experience as something like Jeffrey Epstein's conspiracy. It also simplifies the game to a two player game while maintaining the same core challenges and mechanics as far as I can tell