Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Criticisms of LessWrong

I'll cut straight to the chase: I'm interested in hearing more of your criticisms of LessWrong. I want to determine the truth-value of LessWrong's claims, and drop the parts that are wrong. I'd like to take your arguments, improve them, then publish them on LW to see the response. If you are right, people will update their beliefs. (At a minimum, I will update mine.) Or, if you'd prefer to do this yourself, go right ahead. (Dissenting posts are very well received as long as the arguments in them haven't been addressed many times already.)

As far as I can tell, your criticisms are:


 * The idea of "cached thoughts" is wrong and is not grounded in any cognitive science research
 * The "taboo your words" technique is less valuable than LessWrong posters claim it is
 * Yudkowsky's writings on words and categorization (this collection of posts) are wrong
 * In general, LessWrong is doing bad cognitive science by coming up with folk theories without sufficient supporting evidence

Can you expand these arguments for me, and do you have more?