Interesting write up. I mistook Less Wrong for Suckless and the Cat-V crowd initially and it was kind of interesting to note that they, methinks, fall much closer to NNT on these points (and in overall grumpiness). Particularly:<p>>LW says “all models are wrong but some are useful”. NNT says “all models are wrong but some are harmful”<p>>LW wants you to expand your boundaries as far as you can. A lot of talk is about optimizing things, be smarter, be stronger and so on so forth. NNT asks you to keep it small and beautiful.<p>>LW wants you to do “the most good you can”, NNT wants you to prevent harm and call out frauds.<p>However I think both schools are complementary, and I've enjoyed reading material from all parties.
I have no idea what the context of this post is but in every category of the bullet list I'd rather be on the Less Wrong side than the "NNT" side.