With the content and votes... - my impression is until ~1-2 years ago LW had a decent share of great content; I disliked the average voting “taste vector”, which IMO represented somewhat confused taste in roughly “dumbed down MIRI views” direction. I liked many of the discourse norms - not sure what exactly happened, but my impression is LW is often just another battlefield in ‘magical egregore war zone’. (It’s still way better than other online public spaces)
What I mean by that is a lot of people seemingly moved from ‘let’s figure out how things are’ into ’texts you write are elaborate battle moves in egregore warfare″. Don’t feel excited about pointing to examples, but impression are …growing share of senior top-ranking users who seem hard to convince about anything, can not be bothered to actually engage with arguments, writing either literal manifestos or in manifesto-style.
I like the agree-disagree vote and the design.
With the content and votes...
- my impression is until ~1-2 years ago LW had a decent share of great content; I disliked the average voting “taste vector”, which IMO represented somewhat confused taste in roughly “dumbed down MIRI views” direction. I liked many of the discourse norms
- not sure what exactly happened, but my impression is LW is often just another battlefield in ‘magical egregore war zone’. (It’s still way better than other online public spaces)
What I mean by that is a lot of people seemingly moved from ‘let’s figure out how things are’ into ’texts you write are elaborate battle moves in egregore warfare″. Don’t feel excited about pointing to examples, but impression are …growing share of senior top-ranking users who seem hard to convince about anything, can not be bothered to actually engage with arguments, writing either literal manifestos or in manifesto-style.