I have this heuristic which states, if a bunch of smart people get excited about something, you should check it out. There’s no obligation to also get excited about it (a lot of smart people get excited over classical literature, which does less than nothing for me, but I’m sure this is a product of my draw in the lottery of fascinations and not sloth.)
At this point, “anything that you find interesting and doesn’t get downvoted into oblivion because nobody else finds it interesting” seems a reasonable criteria for “appropriate for LW”. There’s a chance that this allows a spontaneous influx of people who want to write about classical literature or social justice politics, but as long as our core material is The Sequences and the wobsite has MIRI, CFAR, and Future for Humanity Institute in the upper right, I’m not worried about losing what makes LessWrong shiny.
I have this heuristic which states, if a bunch of smart people get excited about something, you should check it out. There’s no obligation to also get excited about it (a lot of smart people get excited over classical literature, which does less than nothing for me, but I’m sure this is a product of my draw in the lottery of fascinations and not sloth.)
At this point, “anything that you find interesting and doesn’t get downvoted into oblivion because nobody else finds it interesting” seems a reasonable criteria for “appropriate for LW”. There’s a chance that this allows a spontaneous influx of people who want to write about classical literature or social justice politics, but as long as our core material is The Sequences and the wobsite has MIRI, CFAR, and Future for Humanity Institute in the upper right, I’m not worried about losing what makes LessWrong shiny.
Beware. That’s exactly how people show up for every horrible Transformers movie in enough numbers to fund the next one.