So, I was just recommended Plastination is Maturing and Needs Funding. I considered putting some effort into “what’s the state of plastination in 2019, 7 years later?” and commenting, but hit a handful of obstacles, one of which was “is the state of plastination in 2019 long content?”. Like, the relevant fund paid out its prizes at various times, and it’d take a bit more digging to figure out if the particular team in Hanson’s post was the one that won, and it’s not really obvious if it matters. (Suppose we discover that the prize wasn’t won by that team, after the evaluation was paid for; what does that imply?)
This makes me more excited about John’s idea that shows posts with some simultaneity between users; like the Sequences Reruns, for example. It might be worth it to have a comment writing up what’s changed for the other people clicking on it in 2019 who don’t know where to look or aren’t that committed to figuring things out, where it doesn’t make sense to push that post into ‘recent discussion’ on my own (if this was randomly picked for me).
So, I was just recommended Plastination is Maturing and Needs Funding. I considered putting some effort into “what’s the state of plastination in 2019, 7 years later?” and commenting, but hit a handful of obstacles, one of which was “is the state of plastination in 2019 long content?”. Like, the relevant fund paid out its prizes at various times, and it’d take a bit more digging to figure out if the particular team in Hanson’s post was the one that won, and it’s not really obvious if it matters. (Suppose we discover that the prize wasn’t won by that team, after the evaluation was paid for; what does that imply?)
This makes me more excited about John’s idea that shows posts with some simultaneity between users; like the Sequences Reruns, for example. It might be worth it to have a comment writing up what’s changed for the other people clicking on it in 2019 who don’t know where to look or aren’t that committed to figuring things out, where it doesn’t make sense to push that post into ‘recent discussion’ on my own (if this was randomly picked for me).