I suspect that #2 alone would do as much good as #1 + #2. (There might be value in some kind of enforced scarcity, but e.g. making #2 the only source of posts in Main would surely suffice.)
It is in any case dependent on finding enough people with enough ideas and time and writing skill to produce one “Eliezer-quality or higher” post per week. That seems to me to be rather more high-quality posts than LW is getting at present, so unless this plan is going to jumpstart everyone’s motivation more than seems plausible to me it’ll depend on cooperation from some people currently out in the rationalist diaspora. Is enough such cooperation likely to be forthcoming?
I suspect that #2 alone would do as much good as #1 + #2. (There might be value in some kind of enforced scarcity, but e.g. making #2 the only source of posts in Main would surely suffice.)
It is in any case dependent on finding enough people with enough ideas and time and writing skill to produce one “Eliezer-quality or higher” post per week. That seems to me to be rather more high-quality posts than LW is getting at present, so unless this plan is going to jumpstart everyone’s motivation more than seems plausible to me it’ll depend on cooperation from some people currently out in the rationalist diaspora. Is enough such cooperation likely to be forthcoming?