This sentiment seems opposed to what others have expressed. Mixed messaging is part of why I’ve been confused.
Aspiring rationalists could benefit from a central place to make friends with and interact with other rationalists (that isn’t Facebook) and welcoming 2) seems like it would be a way to incentivize community, while hopefully the Archipelago model limits how much this could lower LW’s main posts’ standards.
I notice that when I write about rationality adjacent things, it most often comes out as a story about my personal experiences. It isn’t advice or world changing info for others, but it is an account of someone who is thinking about and trying to apply rationality in their life. I predict these stories aren’t totally useless but that they may not be liked or seen as typical LW fair.
I’ll admit the link I see between my last two paragraphs. I would like to be less of a silent watcher and make friends in the community, but my natural style of writing is experiential and mostly doesn’t feel like LessWrong has felt in the past.
It seems like my sense of what “worth everyone’s attention” means is pretty different from others and that’s part of the miscommunication. I take as given that people are already mostly reading garbage most of the time, on Facebook or LW or Reddit or wherever else. So my bar for “worth everyone’s attention” is relative, not absolute: not whether this thing I’m writing is worth everyone’s attention in some absolute sense, but whether it’s better than the garbage it’s displacing. This is not a very high bar!
Also, for what it’s worth, I think stories about personal experiences are great and we should have more of them.
In this case, it’s replacing other stuff on Lesswrong which is a much higher bar. There’s already more stuff on LessWrong than I actually have time to look at, and having to filter through more stuff as more people join and start posting personal stuff will rapidly move this from “I could physically do it if I wanted to” to “I definitely literally could not.”
I want to hear stories about personal experiences from people that I know moderately well and/or who are good writers, but not everyone.
(The whole point is that there are two different reasons one might want to make something a personal blogpost, or that an admin might-or-might-not want not promote it to everyone’s attention, and it’s causing some issues that these two things are getting conflated)
This sentiment seems opposed to what others have expressed. Mixed messaging is part of why I’ve been confused.
Aspiring rationalists could benefit from a central place to make friends with and interact with other rationalists (that isn’t Facebook) and welcoming 2) seems like it would be a way to incentivize community, while hopefully the Archipelago model limits how much this could lower LW’s main posts’ standards.
I notice that when I write about rationality adjacent things, it most often comes out as a story about my personal experiences. It isn’t advice or world changing info for others, but it is an account of someone who is thinking about and trying to apply rationality in their life. I predict these stories aren’t totally useless but that they may not be liked or seen as typical LW fair.
I’ll admit the link I see between my last two paragraphs. I would like to be less of a silent watcher and make friends in the community, but my natural style of writing is experiential and mostly doesn’t feel like LessWrong has felt in the past.
It seems like my sense of what “worth everyone’s attention” means is pretty different from others and that’s part of the miscommunication. I take as given that people are already mostly reading garbage most of the time, on Facebook or LW or Reddit or wherever else. So my bar for “worth everyone’s attention” is relative, not absolute: not whether this thing I’m writing is worth everyone’s attention in some absolute sense, but whether it’s better than the garbage it’s displacing. This is not a very high bar!
Also, for what it’s worth, I think stories about personal experiences are great and we should have more of them.
In this case, it’s replacing other stuff on Lesswrong which is a much higher bar. There’s already more stuff on LessWrong than I actually have time to look at, and having to filter through more stuff as more people join and start posting personal stuff will rapidly move this from “I could physically do it if I wanted to” to “I definitely literally could not.”
I want to hear stories about personal experiences from people that I know moderately well and/or who are good writers, but not everyone.
(The whole point is that there are two different reasons one might want to make something a personal blogpost, or that an admin might-or-might-not want not promote it to everyone’s attention, and it’s causing some issues that these two things are getting conflated)
It’s curious and surprising how rapidly LW grew in the last two months; My System 1 is still expecting 1 post a day on here instead of ten.