Yeah, this sounds like a book club, except where the participants are also the authors.
I like that analogy.
This is part of why I’ve been posting a lot of questions lately—my stab at catalyzing conversation that people feel open to participating in.
Yeah I like that idea.
The fact is that we see a lot more idea posts than metaconversation posts on LW. By contrast, in my closest relationships, a huge proportion of the conversation is metaconversational. It’s about exploring the nuances of relationships and conversation challenges. Those conversations genuinely lead to baseline improvements and real progress. So it might be that we’re just straight-up neglecting something tractable that’s critical for generative conversation on LW to thrive.
Huh, interesting. Drawing that connection to your social life makes it feel intuitive to me that we should be doing a lot more of it on LessWrong. Seems like a good topic for a follow up post.
By contrast, in my closest relationships, a huge proportion of the conversation is metaconversational.
Just curious, but if you don’t mind sharing, to what extent is this an exaggeration?
Not the clearest language, sorry. Slightly more specifically, I mean that a lot of the conversation is either about our own conversations, conversational dynamics generally, or conversation dynamics between ourselves and family/friends or between people we know and others.
I don’t have a confident number to put on it. Between 10-50% perhaps? Which feels huge to me.
I like that analogy.
Yeah I like that idea.
Huh, interesting. Drawing that connection to your social life makes it feel intuitive to me that we should be doing a lot more of it on LessWrong. Seems like a good topic for a follow up post.
Just curious, but if you don’t mind sharing, to what extent is this an exaggeration?
Not the clearest language, sorry. Slightly more specifically, I mean that a lot of the conversation is either about our own conversations, conversational dynamics generally, or conversation dynamics between ourselves and family/friends or between people we know and others.
I don’t have a confident number to put on it. Between 10-50% perhaps? Which feels huge to me.
I see, that makes sense. That 10-50% range does seem huge to me also, but I think it’s cool :)