Seems to me that lesswrong has produced a very valuable product in terms of a community that doesn’t bicker (at least not when they recognize what they’re doing) and balances skepticism and openness reasonably well. There should be a way to capitalize on that. My thought is there should be yet another subreddit.
In fact, I could see there being several:
Low hanging fruit. Example: How to improve your dental hygiene.
Self improvement. Example: Reducing ugh fields with regards to personal finances.
Interesting projects that need attention. Example: Server Sky.
Far topics. Example: Boltzmann Brains.
Fiction and media: Example: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
We can continue to roll these all into Discussion. But Discussion was originally supposed to be for regular LW articles that are not good enough quality for Main yet. There is such thing as good content that is not especially focused (at least on the surface) on learning to improve rationality skills—and arguably this usually does not belong in Main as currently conceived.
Less Wrong is a content producing website. Content is king on the web. And we are all becoming better content creators (i.e. writers) the more we publish and critique.
Another option (and this might help prevent dilution of the main message) would be spawning more sister sites. Lesswrong source is forkable on github. If logins could be transmitted between the different sites more or less seamlessly, that would probably be best.
Seems to me that lesswrong has produced a very valuable product in terms of a community that doesn’t bicker (at least not when they recognize what they’re doing) and balances skepticism and openness reasonably well. There should be a way to capitalize on that. My thought is there should be yet another subreddit.
In fact, I could see there being several:
Low hanging fruit. Example: How to improve your dental hygiene.
Self improvement. Example: Reducing ugh fields with regards to personal finances.
Interesting projects that need attention. Example: Server Sky.
Far topics. Example: Boltzmann Brains.
Fiction and media: Example: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
We can continue to roll these all into Discussion. But Discussion was originally supposed to be for regular LW articles that are not good enough quality for Main yet. There is such thing as good content that is not especially focused (at least on the surface) on learning to improve rationality skills—and arguably this usually does not belong in Main as currently conceived.
Less Wrong is a content producing website. Content is king on the web. And we are all becoming better content creators (i.e. writers) the more we publish and critique.
Another option (and this might help prevent dilution of the main message) would be spawning more sister sites. Lesswrong source is forkable on github. If logins could be transmitted between the different sites more or less seamlessly, that would probably be best.