It was good of you to write this post out of a sense of civic virtue, Anna. I’d like to share a few thoughts on the incentives of potential content creators.
Most humans, and most of us, appreciate being associated with prestigious groups, and receiving praise. However, when people speak about LessWrong being dead, or LessWrong having been taken over by new folks, or about LessWrong simply not being fun, this socially implies that the people saying these things hold LessWrong posters in low esteem. You could reasonably expect that replacing these sorts of remarks with discourse that affirmed the worth of LessWrong posters would incentiveize more collaboration on this site.
I’m not sure if this implies that we should shift to a platform that doesn’t have the taint of “LessWrong is dead” associated with it. Maybe we’ll be ok if a selection of contributors who are highly regarded in the community begin or resume posting on the site. Or, perhaps this implies that the content creators who come to whatever locus of discussion is chosen should be praised for being virtuous by contributing directly to a central hub of knowledge. I’m sure that you all can think of even better ideas along these lines.
It was good of you to write this post out of a sense of civic virtue, Anna. I’d like to share a few thoughts on the incentives of potential content creators.
Most humans, and most of us, appreciate being associated with prestigious groups, and receiving praise. However, when people speak about LessWrong being dead, or LessWrong having been taken over by new folks, or about LessWrong simply not being fun, this socially implies that the people saying these things hold LessWrong posters in low esteem. You could reasonably expect that replacing these sorts of remarks with discourse that affirmed the worth of LessWrong posters would incentiveize more collaboration on this site.
I’m not sure if this implies that we should shift to a platform that doesn’t have the taint of “LessWrong is dead” associated with it. Maybe we’ll be ok if a selection of contributors who are highly regarded in the community begin or resume posting on the site. Or, perhaps this implies that the content creators who come to whatever locus of discussion is chosen should be praised for being virtuous by contributing directly to a central hub of knowledge. I’m sure that you all can think of even better ideas along these lines.