[Link] You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are

I'm new to the community so I appreciate your willingness to explain the poor reception this video got.

I suspect this was downvoted mainly because you posted a link without any kind of description. Even links posted in an Open Thread should have at least a one-sentence description of the link content. A discussion-level post should have a minimum of a short descriptive paragraph. That helps people determine if it is worth their time to click through.

you might be less critical if you'd watched the last 5 minutes of the video.

I did watch the last 5 minutes, mainly because you implied it would get better. In reality, he just makes these trivial arguments favoring acceptance of improved but still imperfect ideas, while still looking for future improvements (as though anyone expects absolute perfection and rejects non-perfect improvements). Arguing that we should prefer the term "less wrong" over "right" is based on a narrow semantic definition of "right" that nobody actually uses and is therefore worthless. It's like arguing that we should stop using the term "cold" to describe anything but absolute zero, and use "less hot" instead.

In all likely-hood a thousand years from now scientists will look back and say we were less wrong than we had been in the past but still far more wrong than they will be.

Well, they say that now. We have something that works better than what we had before. I commend Asimov's essay The Relativity Of Wrong.

Either way I appear to have been misguaged the interests of the community and would appreciate any suggestions for further submissions. Is there a page on submission guidelines/protocol that I've missed?

It's along the right lines of interest, I think :-) I suspect people are reacting badly to a video without much commentary from you - judging by a recent strawpoll on the subject, lots of people here really hate watching videos without a transcript.