The Open Thread is by tradition a venue where there are lower standards for posting. It’s okay to start an additional thread under a “unjustified ideas”-header but I see no argument for why such a thread should be weekly.
We generally had a monthly rhythm for the Stupid Question thread, and the only reason to have something more regular would be if multiple people post enough to the thread that it warrants a faster rhythm.
That said in your case I don’t think “sometimes I don’t have the time” is a good excuse. If you would sometimes engage in a deep argument, it would be viable but I haven’t seen a single post from you do try to deeply argue a case.
Evernote works well for getting ideas stuck in your head on paper. I don’t publish every random idea that I record in Evernote online and I see no reason why this community would encourage such behavior.
I think in general creativity and generativity are undervalued and undersupplied, and I am very hesitant to support any norms that seem to disencentivize generativity. I am in favor of people writing up more half-baked ideas.
If you would sometimes engage in a deep argument, it would be viable but I haven’t seen a single post from you do try to deeply argue a case.
It might help to know that this is an account I created to be anonymous. When I have a “normal” post to write, I write it under my actual name.
Evernote works well for getting ideas stuck in your head on paper. I don’t publish every random idea that I record in Evernote online and I see no reason why this community would encourage such behavior.
Something about getting social feedback feels a lot more powerful (to me) and helps me move past it quicker than just writing it down.
As for this community dis/encouraging this kind of behavior, I’ll leave that up to the admins (and voters).
The Open Thread is by tradition a venue where there are lower standards for posting. It’s okay to start an additional thread under a “unjustified ideas”-header but I see no argument for why such a thread should be weekly.
We generally had a monthly rhythm for the Stupid Question thread, and the only reason to have something more regular would be if multiple people post enough to the thread that it warrants a faster rhythm.
That said in your case I don’t think “sometimes I don’t have the time” is a good excuse. If you would sometimes engage in a deep argument, it would be viable but I haven’t seen a single post from you do try to deeply argue a case.
Evernote works well for getting ideas stuck in your head on paper. I don’t publish every random idea that I record in Evernote online and I see no reason why this community would encourage such behavior.
I think in general creativity and generativity are undervalued and undersupplied, and I am very hesitant to support any norms that seem to disencentivize generativity. I am in favor of people writing up more half-baked ideas.
I agree that “writing up” ideas is useful. To me that phrase implies laying out a case for a given idea. I don’t consider threads like https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/PqzoEQhxJZ5WgFcvR/a-proposed-measure-of-sanity-for-nations or https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/c5ubuEN32hFCTaCs7/fire-drill-proposal a writeup of the kind we want to encourage irrespectable of the quality of the idea.
It might help to know that this is an account I created to be anonymous. When I have a “normal” post to write, I write it under my actual name.
Something about getting social feedback feels a lot more powerful (to me) and helps me move past it quicker than just writing it down.
As for this community dis/encouraging this kind of behavior, I’ll leave that up to the admins (and voters).
I second this.