In general we try to curate things that are recent, so that curation serves in part to:
Help people keep up with what’s new and exciting on LessWrong
Reward people for having produced good content.
But both of these have some tension with a different goal, which (on the margin) is good for curated: to be a list of posts that stand the tests of time and are worth referring to.
At the time Samo was writing his sequence, I had a hesitation about the entire thing summed up by some of Said’s comments: it’s fairly easy to armchair philosophize about society. This post would be better with clear examples, and I’d still encourage Samo to rewrite this post and others to feature examples and evidence.
Nonetheless, all of my own experiences with bureaucracy roughly matches the descriptions given here. I recently explicitly linked back to this post to explain a point, and more generally, this models this post play an important role in how I think about group coordination.
I’m curating this post, after almost a year.
In general we try to curate things that are recent, so that curation serves in part to:
Help people keep up with what’s new and exciting on LessWrong
Reward people for having produced good content.
But both of these have some tension with a different goal, which (on the margin) is good for curated: to be a list of posts that stand the tests of time and are worth referring to.
At the time Samo was writing his sequence, I had a hesitation about the entire thing summed up by some of Said’s comments: it’s fairly easy to armchair philosophize about society. This post would be better with clear examples, and I’d still encourage Samo to rewrite this post and others to feature examples and evidence.
Nonetheless, all of my own experiences with bureaucracy roughly matches the descriptions given here. I recently explicitly linked back to this post to explain a point, and more generally, this models this post play an important role in how I think about group coordination.