Removing obstacles isn’t enough to create a status economy. Creating an inflow of status is much more important. If people can’t think beyond the default “let’s ask old timers to contribute”, it will most likely fail. You need to find a creative idea or ten.
The old LW status economy was enough for you to motivate you, no? Do you feel getting the old timers back would no be enough for you, or for other people?
Very curious about the inflow, what do you think that might look like? Any examples from other forums or social networks or games?
Removing obstacles isn’t enough to create a status economy. Creating an inflow of status is much more important. If people can’t think beyond the default “let’s ask old timers to contribute”, it will most likely fail. You need to find a creative idea or ten.
The old LW status economy was enough for you to motivate you, no? Do you feel getting the old timers back would no be enough for you, or for other people?
Very curious about the inflow, what do you think that might look like? Any examples from other forums or social networks or games?
Some ideas:
Open up MIRI’s internal discussions about strategy as they happen.
Open up MIRI’s workshops as they happen, let people participate remotely.
Prizes, like Quantified Health or Paul’s recent offer of funding for AI alignment research.
Post drafts of papers before publishing them.
Summarize and discuss ideas from Arbital.
Summarize and discuss Paul’s work.
Guest posts / debates / AMAs with high profile non-LW people. Think someone like Nick Bostrom ideally.
Merge IAFF and the MIRI news blog into LW 2.0.
These are great ideas, and makes me optimistic that LW 2.0 can succeed. :)