In the past year I haven’t commented on LW very much. However, I have had the chance to go to several LW meetups, and to meet up individually with people when they visit Oxford. I think the latter has been very valuable—the chance to interact with interesting people on a more intense basis than meetups, and with better feedback than online. And at the moment, if I wanted to visit another city I’d do it by getting in touch with people I knew there. But people I knew from LW would satisfy this perfectly well, for a much wider range of locations.
So it seems it’d make sense for me to do something to subsidise people visiting for conferences or whatever—there are gains to trade to be had here, if we can but lower transaction costs sufficiently.
In the past year I haven’t commented on LW very much. However, I have had the chance to go to several LW meetups, and to meet up individually with people when they visit Oxford. I think the latter has been very valuable—the chance to interact with interesting people on a more intense basis than meetups, and with better feedback than online. And at the moment, if I wanted to visit another city I’d do it by getting in touch with people I knew there. But people I knew from LW would satisfy this perfectly well, for a much wider range of locations.
So it seems it’d make sense for me to do something to subsidise people visiting for conferences or whatever—there are gains to trade to be had here, if we can but lower transaction costs sufficiently.