Add a social norm where the best comments get linked to. I enjoy Yvain’s SSC posts, and the comments section often contains some gems, but digging through all of them to find the gems is tedious.
The biggest problem with SSC is there is no voting. Lesswrong allows the best comments to rise to the top, in principle at least. Still I think it’s a good idea, interesting discussion can be buried in nested comments, or be better than the main post.
Maybe we should have subreddits on LW. I’m not sure about this one.
I really don’t like this idea. I think the best model for lesswrong is something like Hacker News. Hacker news has no sections for different topics and it’s just vague “things of interest to hackers” which includes almost everything. I’d like to see lesswrong become “things of interest to rationalists”, which could be everything from SSC posts to genetics research to AI research. I think it would work out well.
Whereas reddit excludes a lot of things that don’t neatly fit into the limited topic of any specific large subreddit, and most people don’t’ subscribe to non default subreddits even if some of the content there might interest them.
The biggest problem with SSC is there is no voting. Lesswrong allows the best comments to rise to the top, in principle at least. Still I think it’s a good idea, interesting discussion can be buried in nested comments, or be better than the main post.
I really don’t like this idea. I think the best model for lesswrong is something like Hacker News. Hacker news has no sections for different topics and it’s just vague “things of interest to hackers” which includes almost everything. I’d like to see lesswrong become “things of interest to rationalists”, which could be everything from SSC posts to genetics research to AI research. I think it would work out well.
Whereas reddit excludes a lot of things that don’t neatly fit into the limited topic of any specific large subreddit, and most people don’t’ subscribe to non default subreddits even if some of the content there might interest them.