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)
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.