I’m not sure what a Twitter-like LW would look like; you’d have to elaborate. But a somewhat more approachable avenue to some of the best content here can be found in the Library section, in particular the Sequences Highlights, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (though I think this mirror provides a more pleasant reading experience), or Best of LessWrong.
Alternatively, you could decide what things you particularly care about and then browse the Concepts (tags) page, e.g. here’s the Practical tag.
For more active community participation, there’s the LW Community page, or the loosely related Slate Star Codex subreddit, and of course lots of rationalists use Twitter or Facebook, too.
Finally, regarding writers being paid: I don’t know the proportion of people who are in some capacity professional writers, or who do something else as a job and incidentally produce some blog posts sometimes. But to give some examples of how some of the content here comes to be:
As I understand it, Yudkowsky wrote the original LW Sequences as a ~2-year fulltime project while employed at the nonprofit MIRI. The LW team is another nonprofit with paid employees; though that’s mostly behind-the-scenes infrastructure stuff, the team members do heavily use LW, too. And some proportion of AI posts are by people who work on this stuff full-time, but I don’t know which proportion. And lots of content here is crossposted from people with their own blogs, which may have some form of funding (like Substack, Patreon, grants from a nonprofit, etc.). E.g. early on Scott Alexander used to post directly on LW as a hobby, then mostly on his own blog Slate Star Codex, and nowadays he writes on the Astral Codex Ten substack.
I’m not sure what a Twitter-like LW would look like; you’d have to elaborate. But a somewhat more approachable avenue to some of the best content here can be found in the Library section, in particular the Sequences Highlights, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (though I think this mirror provides a more pleasant reading experience), or Best of LessWrong.
Alternatively, you could decide what things you particularly care about and then browse the Concepts (tags) page, e.g. here’s the Practical tag.
For more active community participation, there’s the LW Community page, or the loosely related Slate Star Codex subreddit, and of course lots of rationalists use Twitter or Facebook, too.
Finally, regarding writers being paid: I don’t know the proportion of people who are in some capacity professional writers, or who do something else as a job and incidentally produce some blog posts sometimes. But to give some examples of how some of the content here comes to be:
As I understand it, Yudkowsky wrote the original LW Sequences as a ~2-year fulltime project while employed at the nonprofit MIRI. The LW team is another nonprofit with paid employees; though that’s mostly behind-the-scenes infrastructure stuff, the team members do heavily use LW, too. And some proportion of AI posts are by people who work on this stuff full-time, but I don’t know which proportion. And lots of content here is crossposted from people with their own blogs, which may have some form of funding (like Substack, Patreon, grants from a nonprofit, etc.). E.g. early on Scott Alexander used to post directly on LW as a hobby, then mostly on his own blog Slate Star Codex, and nowadays he writes on the Astral Codex Ten substack.