I quickly lost motivation to keep writing for my own site in part because the comments on my LW posts were of much higher quality than the comments on my posts for my own site.
It’s handy to discuss things with people who (mostly) share a large amount of method and background knowledge. You can start conversations at a fairly high level, instead of having to explain over and over again the basics of probability theory or what truth is.
I quickly lost motivation to keep writing for my own site in part because the comments on my LW posts were of much higher quality than the comments on my posts for my own site.
It’s handy to discuss things with people who (mostly) share a large amount of method and background knowledge. You can start conversations at a fairly high level, instead of having to explain over and over again the basics of probability theory or what truth is.