Creating subforums still leaves you with the question of “but what do you see when you go to the main page on lesswrong.com″. You still somehow want the overall site to have a reasonable balance of stuff on the main list that everyone reads.
I do think we’re approaching the point where it might make sense to consider subforums, but IMO they don’t solve the core problem here.
My sense is that some people are here for AI and some people are here for rationality, and we shouldn’t default to either. New users should be prompted to choose a main stream to follow which will populate their feed.
(I’m pretty annoyed about all the time I spent scrolling past non AI posts in the past because I wasn’t aware of the filtering mechanisms.)
Creating subforums still leaves you with the question of “but what do you see when you go to the main page on lesswrong.com″. You still somehow want the overall site to have a reasonable balance of stuff on the main list that everyone reads.
I do think we’re approaching the point where it might make sense to consider subforums, but IMO they don’t solve the core problem here.
My sense is that some people are here for AI and some people are here for rationality, and we shouldn’t default to either. New users should be prompted to choose a main stream to follow which will populate their feed.
(I’m pretty annoyed about all the time I spent scrolling past non AI posts in the past because I wasn’t aware of the filtering mechanisms.)