If you want to make LW livelier, you should downvote less on the margin… downvoting disincentivizes posting. It makes sense to downvote if there’s lots of content and you want to help other people cut through the crap. But if there’s too little it’s arguably less useful.
Also develop your interesting thoughts and create posts out of them.
Slate Star Codex comments have smart people and a significant overlap with LW, but the interface isn’t great (comment threading stops after it gets to a certain level of depth, etc).
Alternatively, it may help to be more selective on reddit—no default subreddits, for example.
Its survival is in doubt. In particular, “The site is currently and has been for several months operating at a significant loss. If nothing were to change, MeFi would defaulting on bills and hitting bankruptcy by mid-summer.”
This question occasionally comes up on #lesswrong, too, especially given the perceived decline in the quality of LW discussions in the last year or so. There are various stackoverflow-based sites for quality discussions of very specific topics, but I am not aware of anything more general. Various subreddits unfortunately tend to be swarmed by inanity.
Where is somewhere to go for decent discussion on the internet? I’m tired of how intellectually mediocre reddit is, but this place is kind of dead.
Alternative: Liven up Less Wrong. I’m not sure how to do that, but it’s possible solution to your problem.
If you want to make LW livelier, you should downvote less on the margin… downvoting disincentivizes posting. It makes sense to downvote if there’s lots of content and you want to help other people cut through the crap. But if there’s too little it’s arguably less useful.
Also develop your interesting thoughts and create posts out of them.
Slate Star Codex comments have smart people and a significant overlap with LW, but the interface isn’t great (comment threading stops after it gets to a certain level of depth, etc). Alternatively, it may help to be more selective on reddit—no default subreddits, for example.
Check out metafilter.
Its survival is in doubt. In particular, “The site is currently and has been for several months operating at a significant loss. If nothing were to change, MeFi would defaulting on bills and hitting bankruptcy by mid-summer.”
Also looking for LW replacement, with no current success.
This question occasionally comes up on #lesswrong, too, especially given the perceived decline in the quality of LW discussions in the last year or so. There are various stackoverflow-based sites for quality discussions of very specific topics, but I am not aware of anything more general. Various subreddits unfortunately tend to be swarmed by inanity.
So LW but bigger? I think you are out of luck there.