I would expect the following things to have failed:
Good community norms (this is a difficult problem that LW has solved admirably)
Using advice from LW to improve my social skills (this is actually sort of a subpoint of “if someone else does it better, LW points you to them”)
Promotion of thinking about pet issues (this one failed by less than the others—the sequences pretty much cleaned out the god-hating but I’m constantly annoyed at people who don’t have good epistemology)
there’s plenty more that is substantially less tangible, and YMMV, but those first two points have created a large amount of value for me personally.
I would expect the following things to have failed:
Good community norms (this is a difficult problem that LW has solved admirably)
Using advice from LW to improve my social skills (this is actually sort of a subpoint of “if someone else does it better, LW points you to them”)
Promotion of thinking about pet issues (this one failed by less than the others—the sequences pretty much cleaned out the god-hating but I’m constantly annoyed at people who don’t have good epistemology)
there’s plenty more that is substantially less tangible, and YMMV, but those first two points have created a large amount of value for me personally.