Being worthy of everyone’s attention is quite the bar! I certainly wouldn’t want to only publish things that rise to the level of ‘everyone or at least a large percentage of rationalists should read this post.’ The majority of my posts do not rise to that level, and by math almost no posts in the world can rise to that level.
The global justification is, if you don’t let me put my third-tier posts on my personal blog here, then I’ll be creating content that doesn’t end up on LW2.0, which means that to read all my stuff they have to check my blog itself at DWATV, which means they get into the habit of reading me there and LW2.0 fails as a central hub. You want to make it possible for people to just not check other sources, at all.
Being worthy of everyone’s attention is quite the bar! I certainly wouldn’t want to only publish things that rise to the level of ‘everyone or at least a large percentage of rationalists should read this post.’ The majority of my posts do not rise to that level, and by math almost no posts in the world can rise to that level.
The global justification is, if you don’t let me put my third-tier posts on my personal blog here, then I’ll be creating content that doesn’t end up on LW2.0, which means that to read all my stuff they have to check my blog itself at DWATV, which means they get into the habit of reading me there and LW2.0 fails as a central hub. You want to make it possible for people to just not check other sources, at all.
Okay, I’m sold.