why should I ever write longform with the aim of getting to the top of LW, as opposed to the top of Hacker News? similar audiences, but HN is bigger.
I don’t cite. I don’t research. I have nothing to say about AI.
my friends are on here … but that’s outclassed by discord and twitter. people here speak in my local dialect … but that trains bad habits. it helps LW itself … but if im going for impact surely large reach is the way to go?
I guess LW is uniquely about the meta stuff. Thoughts on how to think better. but I’m suspicious of meta.
it helps LW itself … but if im going for impact surely large reach is the way to go?
I think the main question is “do you have things to say that build on states-of-the-art in a domain that LessWrong is on the cutting edge of?”. Large reach is good when you have a fairly simple thing you want to communicate to raise the society baseline, but sometimes higher impact comes from pushing the state of the art forward, or communicating something nuanced with a lot of dependencies.
You say you don’t research, so maybe not, but just wanted to note you may want to consider variations on that theme.
If you’re communicating something to broader society, fwiw I also don’t know that there’s actually much tradeoff between optimizing for hacker news vs LessWrong. If you optimize directly for doing well on hacker news probably LW folk will still reasonably like it, even if it’s not, like, peak karma or whatever (with some caveats around politically loaded stuff which might play differently with different audiences).
You could publish on LW and submit the article to HN.
From my perspective (as a reader), the greatest difference between the websites is that cliché stupid comments will be downvoted on LW; on HN there is more of this kind of noise.
I think you are correct that getting to the top of HN would give you way more visibility. Though I have no idea about specific numbers.
(So, post on HN for exposure, and post on LW for rational discussion?)
why should I ever write longform with the aim of getting to the top of LW, as opposed to the top of Hacker News? similar audiences, but HN is bigger.
I don’t cite. I don’t research.
I have nothing to say about AI.
my friends are on here … but that’s outclassed by discord and twitter.
people here speak in my local dialect … but that trains bad habits.
it helps LW itself … but if im going for impact surely large reach is the way to go?
I guess LW is uniquely about the meta stuff. Thoughts on how to think better. but I’m suspicious of meta.
I think the main question is “do you have things to say that build on states-of-the-art in a domain that LessWrong is on the cutting edge of?”. Large reach is good when you have a fairly simple thing you want to communicate to raise the society baseline, but sometimes higher impact comes from pushing the state of the art forward, or communicating something nuanced with a lot of dependencies.
You say you don’t research, so maybe not, but just wanted to note you may want to consider variations on that theme.
If you’re communicating something to broader society, fwiw I also don’t know that there’s actually much tradeoff between optimizing for hacker news vs LessWrong. If you optimize directly for doing well on hacker news probably LW folk will still reasonably like it, even if it’s not, like, peak karma or whatever (with some caveats around politically loaded stuff which might play differently with different audiences).
You could publish on LW and submit the article to HN.
From my perspective (as a reader), the greatest difference between the websites is that cliché stupid comments will be downvoted on LW; on HN there is more of this kind of noise.
I think you are correct that getting to the top of HN would give you way more visibility. Though I have no idea about specific numbers.
(So, post on HN for exposure, and post on LW for rational discussion?)