As a pseudonymous poster with a non-EA job who created his account a few months after yours, I’ve needed to update on the value of prolonged debate on at least meta topics. There was a lot of going in late 2022 / early 2023 where I think having outside voices deeply engaging with debates in the comments was of significant value. I think that is considerably less true for, e.g., the whole Nonlinear controversy in late 2023 / early 2024.
As a pseudonymous poster with a non-EA job who created his account a few months after yours, I’ve needed to update on the value of prolonged debate on at least meta topics. There was a lot of going in late 2022 / early 2023 where I think having outside voices deeply engaging with debates in the comments was of significant value. I think that is considerably less true for, e.g., the whole Nonlinear controversy in late 2023 / early 2024.