No, you don’t have a wide audience. You have a politics group with four members. Writing on Lesswrong reaches a much wider audience.
In my experience Lesswrong is fairly diverse. I don’t think that there a problem of not enough Humanity+ type people contributing ideas to lesswrong. Lesswrong attracts a fairly diverse readership.
Five, but point taken. That’s why we’re recruiting in the first place. A site no-one knows about isn’t doing any good after all. So we recruit. From LessWrong, from Humanity+, SENS and Lifeboat but also from sites you might not have considered as futurists, like Space.com, Greenpeace, Thingiverse, and the European Pirate party. This is where the diversity bit comes in. Emails and posts are going out to these groups as fast as we can make them, but we chose to contact LessWrong as early in the process as possible, because, as you point out, it is a large and diverse community.
The way the website looks, it seems like you failed at the building part.
The website is very much a work in progress, yes. But then websites generally do look bad in the beginning, until the influx of fresh eyes help the developers see the trouble spots. Work is ongoing to make a prettier front end, but the off the shelf solution we found was deemed more cost effective than having a group of novices sit down and design a page from scratch.
The website is very much a work in progress, yes. But then websites generally do look bad in the beginning, until the influx of fresh eyes help the developers see the trouble spots.
No, that’s not how it normally works for a professional website.
Normally websites aren’t designed by developers but are designed by a webdesigner. On top of that there are readymade solutions for forums. LessWrong for example uses the reddit framework.
The website would probably profit from starting from scratch with a proper design.
Emails and posts are going out to these groups as fast as we can make them, but we chose to contact LessWrong as early in the process as possible, because, as you point out, it is a large and diverse community.
So you choose to contact Lesswrong for recruitment at a time where it’s inprobable that your recruiting is very successful because it’s large...
Five, but point taken. That’s why we’re recruiting in the first place. A site no-one knows about isn’t doing any good after all. So we recruit. From LessWrong, from Humanity+, SENS and Lifeboat but also from sites you might not have considered as futurists, like Space.com, Greenpeace, Thingiverse, and the European Pirate party. This is where the diversity bit comes in. Emails and posts are going out to these groups as fast as we can make them, but we chose to contact LessWrong as early in the process as possible, because, as you point out, it is a large and diverse community.
The website is very much a work in progress, yes. But then websites generally do look bad in the beginning, until the influx of fresh eyes help the developers see the trouble spots. Work is ongoing to make a prettier front end, but the off the shelf solution we found was deemed more cost effective than having a group of novices sit down and design a page from scratch.
No, that’s not how it normally works for a professional website. Normally websites aren’t designed by developers but are designed by a webdesigner. On top of that there are readymade solutions for forums. LessWrong for example uses the reddit framework.
The website would probably profit from starting from scratch with a proper design.
So you choose to contact Lesswrong for recruitment at a time where it’s inprobable that your recruiting is very successful because it’s large...