Aside from what’s already here, I can think of a few “character profiles” of fields that would benefit from LessWrong infrastructure:
Hard fields that are in decent epistemic health but could benefit from outsiders and cross pollination with our memeplex (e.g. economics).
Object level things where outside experts can perform the skill but the current epistemological foundations are so shaky that procedural instructions work poorly (e.g. home cooking).
Things that are very useful where good information exists but finding it requires navigating a lemon market (e.g. personal finance).
Fields that have come up regularly as inputs into grand innovations that required knowledge from multiple areas (e.g. anything Elon needed to start his companies)
I don’t think the bottleneck is lack of recruitment though, the problem is that content has no place to go. As you rightly point out, things that aren’t interesting to the general LW audience get crickets. I have unusual things I really want to show on LessWrong that are on their 5th rewrite because I have to cross so many inferential gaps and somehow make stuff LW doesn’t care about appealing enough to stay on the front page.
Aside from what’s already here, I can think of a few “character profiles” of fields that would benefit from LessWrong infrastructure:
Hard fields that are in decent epistemic health but could benefit from outsiders and cross pollination with our memeplex (e.g. economics).
Object level things where outside experts can perform the skill but the current epistemological foundations are so shaky that procedural instructions work poorly (e.g. home cooking).
Things that are very useful where good information exists but finding it requires navigating a lemon market (e.g. personal finance).
Fields that have come up regularly as inputs into grand innovations that required knowledge from multiple areas (e.g. anything Elon needed to start his companies)
I don’t think the bottleneck is lack of recruitment though, the problem is that content has no place to go. As you rightly point out, things that aren’t interesting to the general LW audience get crickets. I have unusual things I really want to show on LessWrong that are on their 5th rewrite because I have to cross so many inferential gaps and somehow make stuff LW doesn’t care about appealing enough to stay on the front page.