The thing is that, in any community (what defines ‘community’ is up to you, although the the broadest definition is “having something in common”, and that is not a good one) that both respects itself and is actually useful, it usually grows organically, attracting people who are interested in both heart and spirit, and it grows incrementally, with members being slowly added.
Rather than drafting people in, a good community will slowly evolve because it attracts interested people. I’d go on but I’d just be repeating “Wellkept gardens” so I’ll stop here.
I don’t want to think about attracting people anymore, because we’ve already had the Eternal September, and any person who spent a major amount of time on the internet can agree to have experienced it in one form, or intensity, or in their own, individual way, and I do believe we can agree THAT was terrible.
Yup, I don’t want Eternal September either. My primary goal is to raise the sanity waterline broadly, through publishing articles for broad venues and getting people engaged with Intentional Insights content. For people who prove to be highly engaged with rational thinking and wish to advance further, those are the people I would direct to Less Wrong more explicitly.
The thing is that, in any community (what defines ‘community’ is up to you, although the the broadest definition is “having something in common”, and that is not a good one) that both respects itself and is actually useful, it usually grows organically, attracting people who are interested in both heart and spirit, and it grows incrementally, with members being slowly added.
Rather than drafting people in, a good community will slowly evolve because it attracts interested people. I’d go on but I’d just be repeating “Wellkept gardens” so I’ll stop here.
I don’t want to think about attracting people anymore, because we’ve already had the Eternal September, and any person who spent a major amount of time on the internet can agree to have experienced it in one form, or intensity, or in their own, individual way, and I do believe we can agree THAT was terrible.
Yup, I don’t want Eternal September either. My primary goal is to raise the sanity waterline broadly, through publishing articles for broad venues and getting people engaged with Intentional Insights content. For people who prove to be highly engaged with rational thinking and wish to advance further, those are the people I would direct to Less Wrong more explicitly.