Kicking the habit
Unfogged has been in a decline for a long time now. It’s just not as interesting to me anymore. My brand of humor isn’t extremely appreciated over there (i.e. I don’t get much positive feedback), though I’m sure it’s around average. My positions on issues are not challenged seriously by anyone, and most of the topics aren’t ones that I have anything to add to.
So I’m going to try to stop reading. Finding another good blog to comment at is going to be quite hard. I’ll have some regrets. It’ll be a lot like breaking up with an old girlfriend when you’ve drifted apart. But it’ll be a positive thing. Less Wrong is already a good blog I’m reading regularly. Overcoming Bias is also a pretty good source of stuff. But neither will quite fill the hole left by Unfogged. The blogosphere is so huge, and it’s so hard to sift through. Well, maybe I should focus less on online time-wasting anyway.
Of course, now I have to figure out where I’m going to get my news.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:07
Be careful with OB and LW. There is a lot of insight floating around, but they’re embedded in a set of intellectual and emotional assumptions that are misleading at best. One could say that about pretty much anything, I suppose, but in these cases, especially LW, unwitting or unmitigated acceptance of assumptions seems dangerous.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:42
Bummer. Unfogged has been dull lately, so I do understand, but come by and say hi every so often if you think of it.