Speaking purely for myself, and having fully read all of A Chemical Hunger, all of your commentary, all of Natália’s, and all of the LessWrong comments, this episode has reinforced one of my contrarian-to-this-subculture priors:
Science done by nontraditional institutions should be assumed to be incorrect.
Science is really, really, really hard to do, because reality is really, really, really complicated. Institutions like universities and research-focused corporations are equipped with the systems necessary to overcome this complexity and publish research that will generally be more correct than incorrect. When groups like SMTM try and Do Science without those systems, they are more likely to be incorrect than they are to be correct.
Speaking purely for myself, and having fully read all of A Chemical Hunger, all of your commentary, all of Natália’s, and all of the LessWrong comments, this episode has reinforced one of my contrarian-to-this-subculture priors:
Science done by nontraditional institutions should be assumed to be incorrect.
Science is really, really, really hard to do, because reality is really, really, really complicated. Institutions like universities and research-focused corporations are equipped with the systems necessary to overcome this complexity and publish research that will generally be more correct than incorrect. When groups like SMTM try and Do Science without those systems, they are more likely to be incorrect than they are to be correct.