Thanks for your thoughts. My purpose with the posts was more to lay out some of my preliminary thoughts on the subject and get any feedback people have, i.e., to check my thinking.
I do understand that many of the posts aren’t awesome and won’t get upvotes, and that’s something I can accept (the marginal cost of polishing the posts to the point where they look really exciting probably isn’t worth the benefit, if the posts can be reworked at all). The small amounts of net upvotes do seem to add up. Some of my posts (such as http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jj1/supply_demand_and_technological_progress_how/ and http://lesswrong.com/lw/k25/beware_technological_wonderland_or_why_text_will/ did end up getting a lot of upvotes eventually). Some of my posts, such as this one, are more of “utility” posts that I will refer to in later posts. I should not that I am not personally too concerned with karma; as long as I am not being heavily downvoted on net, I think that posting passes a cost-benefit analysis for me.
While I do have a broader framework of where I’m going with the posts, the framework itself is changing frequently in my head, and I don’t think it is productive to lay it out too much right now while it’s still in so much flux. But I will periodically review and add more links between the posts. Once I am done with all posts, I will do a more thorough cleanup.
Thanks for your thoughts. My purpose with the posts was more to lay out some of my preliminary thoughts on the subject and get any feedback people have, i.e., to check my thinking.
I do understand that many of the posts aren’t awesome and won’t get upvotes, and that’s something I can accept (the marginal cost of polishing the posts to the point where they look really exciting probably isn’t worth the benefit, if the posts can be reworked at all). The small amounts of net upvotes do seem to add up. Some of my posts (such as http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jj1/supply_demand_and_technological_progress_how/ and http://lesswrong.com/lw/k25/beware_technological_wonderland_or_why_text_will/ did end up getting a lot of upvotes eventually). Some of my posts, such as this one, are more of “utility” posts that I will refer to in later posts. I should not that I am not personally too concerned with karma; as long as I am not being heavily downvoted on net, I think that posting passes a cost-benefit analysis for me.
While I do have a broader framework of where I’m going with the posts, the framework itself is changing frequently in my head, and I don’t think it is productive to lay it out too much right now while it’s still in so much flux. But I will periodically review and add more links between the posts. Once I am done with all posts, I will do a more thorough cleanup.