What about people who have LW accounts and also accounts at places like GitHub (like me, for example)? It makes sense then that people would do talking at talking-sites and production at production-sites.
The “can’t get crap done” malaise might just be that LWers tend to think that they’re not getting enough crap done. Talking about that feeling at LW is appropriate, whereas talking about it at GitHub would (perhaps rightly) just earn some responses of “Well, starting coding already then!”, since it’s not the function of those sites to deal with akrasia but to organize efforts that have already dodged that trap.
In a cool liquid there will always be some fast particles, just fewer of them. Or to put it more seriously I am talking statistically, I expect a distribution.
Do you compartmentalize the two sites? That is if you saw something that needed doing or would be useful for the lesswrong community would you code it up and try and get other people to help? For example a productivity monitoring tool?
If everyone who does do stuff, but not lesswrong style stuff, then lesswrong as a community will be hard pressed to achieve its goals of making people less wrong.
If we talk and decide that X is an important problem that needs solving (say akrasia), what do we do then?
An ideal community would run experiments, code/build solutions, discuss and debate the findings. Can we make this happen?
What about people who have LW accounts and also accounts at places like GitHub (like me, for example)? It makes sense then that people would do talking at talking-sites and production at production-sites.
The “can’t get crap done” malaise might just be that LWers tend to think that they’re not getting enough crap done. Talking about that feeling at LW is appropriate, whereas talking about it at GitHub would (perhaps rightly) just earn some responses of “Well, starting coding already then!”, since it’s not the function of those sites to deal with akrasia but to organize efforts that have already dodged that trap.
In a cool liquid there will always be some fast particles, just fewer of them. Or to put it more seriously I am talking statistically, I expect a distribution.
Do you compartmentalize the two sites? That is if you saw something that needed doing or would be useful for the lesswrong community would you code it up and try and get other people to help? For example a productivity monitoring tool?
If everyone who does do stuff, but not lesswrong style stuff, then lesswrong as a community will be hard pressed to achieve its goals of making people less wrong.
If we talk and decide that X is an important problem that needs solving (say akrasia), what do we do then?
An ideal community would run experiments, code/build solutions, discuss and debate the findings. Can we make this happen?