Comment by mistermann

> It has the power to turn the most interesting and smartest people into bitter trolls.

There is tremendous value in having access to large quantities of data demonstrating the various failure modes of relatively intelligent minds. Nothing is being (publicly) done with this data so far, but this will not last forever.

This is something that has always bothered me about the /r/SSC community (and others): the "no culture war topics" constraint + moderators locking threads when the Rationalists start collectively behaving irrationally.