Right but the point is to expand the intellectual horizons of LessWrongers. At the very least to familiarize them with the origin and arguments for many ideas they probably run across on this site all the time. A sequence that just appears in the wiki will have little immediate impact and will have more of a delayed effect (since sequence readers will also start reading the Hanson sequences).
They will show up the “New on Overcoming Bias” so I think they will still be read live, though they might not be discussed on LW.. Also if posted on OB I think RH will probably be more willing to give feedback either before they are posted or in the comment section, which would much improve the quality of such articles.
But OB is now his personal blog, you writing posts might seem like sending the signal that he wants OB to go back to what it was.
Maybe cross-post them? Thought that might cause some odd feelings for those who read both OB and LW. “Oh no, where do I comment I can’t decide!” Those who don’t read OB, many new posters probably aren’t even familiar with it, will also be more willing to comment on it here than there.
At the bare minimum once you are done a promoted Main Post called: “The Hanson Sequences” or something like that might work to grab peoples attention.
I really hope RH approves something like this. His thinking has been a great behind the scenes influence on many key rationalists and LWers. But since they are harder to conveniently cite people thus straw man his arguments (they especially like to do with the status theories) or worse misapply or misuse them.
My email included a link to this comment chain so he’ll be aware of all this. I’ll let him dictate how and where the summary is posted for the RH sequences.
Not if he wants it done. Ask if he has any objection to you writing something like this for LW.
Eh, it’s his blog so I’d feel better making it for his site and just linking his index in the sequences.
Right but the point is to expand the intellectual horizons of LessWrongers. At the very least to familiarize them with the origin and arguments for many ideas they probably run across on this site all the time. A sequence that just appears in the wiki will have little immediate impact and will have more of a delayed effect (since sequence readers will also start reading the Hanson sequences).
They will show up the “New on Overcoming Bias” so I think they will still be read live, though they might not be discussed on LW.. Also if posted on OB I think RH will probably be more willing to give feedback either before they are posted or in the comment section, which would much improve the quality of such articles.
But OB is now his personal blog, you writing posts might seem like sending the signal that he wants OB to go back to what it was.
Maybe cross-post them? Thought that might cause some odd feelings for those who read both OB and LW. “Oh no, where do I comment I can’t decide!” Those who don’t read OB, many new posters probably aren’t even familiar with it, will also be more willing to comment on it here than there.
Cross post sounds good. Every important sequence index could follow a “Humans guide to words” like summary.
At the bare minimum once you are done a promoted Main Post called: “The Hanson Sequences” or something like that might work to grab peoples attention.
I really hope RH approves something like this. His thinking has been a great behind the scenes influence on many key rationalists and LWers. But since they are harder to conveniently cite people thus straw man his arguments (they especially like to do with the status theories) or worse misapply or misuse them.
My email included a link to this comment chain so he’ll be aware of all this. I’ll let him dictate how and where the summary is posted for the RH sequences.
Oh of course I was just thinking out loud.
No problem if he approves I’ll post a top level discussion thread letting people know what’s going on and what shape he would like it to take etc.