It occurred to me yesterday that maybe LessWrong should be ‘formalized’ a bit. I’m happy to have found this page (and others) that are strong evidence that some parts of civilization are pretty adequate!
Thank you all for your hard work. I love this site. I think you’ve done an excellent job keeping it going!
The original context in which I started thinking about this was a discussion of a new site feature. I knew there was a small team of developers, I was pretty sure they weren’t being paid full-time developer salaries, and was thinking about rules or systems to decide on things like that.
(I’m a big fan of a loose ‘whatever the developers are willing to implement and maintain’ as the sole filter on what gets done for non-commercial projects.)
Thinking bigger picture, I realized I didn’t know how the LW team was being funded, if (or how much) it’s being funded, how it’s organized ‘formally’ (e.g. as a non-profit), etc..
I also realized I didn’t know how or whether the site data was being backed-up, whether those backups were publicly available, etc.. (I’d still like to know about this, if only so I can archive my own copy of the site’s contents.)
It occurred to me yesterday that maybe LessWrong should be ‘formalized’ a bit. I’m happy to have found this page (and others) that are strong evidence that some parts of civilization are pretty adequate!
Thank you all for your hard work. I love this site. I think you’ve done an excellent job keeping it going!
I’m glad you like the site! You’re welcome.
I’m curious though, what do you mean by “formalized”?
The original context in which I started thinking about this was a discussion of a new site feature. I knew there was a small team of developers, I was pretty sure they weren’t being paid full-time developer salaries, and was thinking about rules or systems to decide on things like that.
(I’m a big fan of a loose ‘whatever the developers are willing to implement and maintain’ as the sole filter on what gets done for non-commercial projects.)
Thinking bigger picture, I realized I didn’t know how the LW team was being funded, if (or how much) it’s being funded, how it’s organized ‘formally’ (e.g. as a non-profit), etc..
I also realized I didn’t know how or whether the site data was being backed-up, whether those backups were publicly available, etc.. (I’d still like to know about this, if only so I can archive my own copy of the site’s contents.)