I’ve noticed a distinct trend lately in that I’ve been commenting less and less on posts as time goes by. I’ve been wondering if its just that the new car smell of lesswrong has been wearing off, or if it is something else.
Well, I think I’ve identified it. I just don’t care for discussions about how to go about building communities. It may, in the long run, be beneficial to work out how to build communities of rationalists, but in the meantime I find these discussions are making this less and less a community I want to be a part of, and (if I am not unique) may be having the opposite effect that they intend.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying these discussions are unimportant or are not germane to the building of this site. I am saying that if a new person comes here and reads the last posts, are they going to want to stay? For myself, I find I am willing to be part of a community of enthusiastic rationalists (which is why I started reading this blog in the first place), but I have NO interest in being part of a community that spends all its time debating on how to build the community.
Lately, to me, this place has seemed more of the latter and less of the former.
Building Communities vs. Being Rational
I’ve noticed a distinct trend lately in that I’ve been commenting less and less on posts as time goes by. I’ve been wondering if its just that the new car smell of lesswrong has been wearing off, or if it is something else.
Well, I think I’ve identified it. I just don’t care for discussions about how to go about building communities. It may, in the long run, be beneficial to work out how to build communities of rationalists, but in the meantime I find these discussions are making this less and less a community I want to be a part of, and (if I am not unique) may be having the opposite effect that they intend.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying these discussions are unimportant or are not germane to the building of this site. I am saying that if a new person comes here and reads the last posts, are they going to want to stay? For myself, I find I am willing to be part of a community of enthusiastic rationalists (which is why I started reading this blog in the first place), but I have NO interest in being part of a community that spends all its time debating on how to build the community.
Lately, to me, this place has seemed more of the latter and less of the former.