So as far as I’m concerned, the dev team has forfeited the war to win one temporary battle (getting Eliezer back on the site). And as significant a battle as that is, it’s not worth the war.
By the way, it’s not even clear that this battle is won yet. I certainly don’t see any new posts from Eliezer (Inadequate Equilibria doesn’t count), and definitely no comments from him (and if he posts but doesn’t interact with commenters, then there’s no point).
(This is not to disagree with the OP, to be clear; quite the opposite.)
Just to clarify, if only Eliezer had requested stronger moderation capabilities, we would have not built stronger moderation capabilities. The problem of LessWrong being a place that feels hostile to a lot of historical top-contributors, and to a lot of potentially new top-contributors is a major one that has been on my radar since I started the whole LW 2.0 project.
So while people are obviously open to have their own models of why the LW2 team is doing various things, the reasoning presented here does not resonate with me, and does not seem to reflect my internal experience of making this decision.
This is all fair enough, but to clarify, my comment was aimed only at the notion that the goal of “get Eliezer to use the site” has been achieved, not whether it was the only goal, or anything else.
By the way, it’s not even clear that this battle is won yet. I certainly don’t see any new posts from Eliezer (Inadequate Equilibria doesn’t count), and definitely no comments from him (and if he posts but doesn’t interact with commenters, then there’s no point).
(This is not to disagree with the OP, to be clear; quite the opposite.)
Just to clarify, if only Eliezer had requested stronger moderation capabilities, we would have not built stronger moderation capabilities. The problem of LessWrong being a place that feels hostile to a lot of historical top-contributors, and to a lot of potentially new top-contributors is a major one that has been on my radar since I started the whole LW 2.0 project.
So while people are obviously open to have their own models of why the LW2 team is doing various things, the reasoning presented here does not resonate with me, and does not seem to reflect my internal experience of making this decision.
This is all fair enough, but to clarify, my comment was aimed only at the notion that the goal of “get Eliezer to use the site” has been achieved, not whether it was the only goal, or anything else.
You are wrong about your own motivations in a way trivially predictable by monkey dynamics.