This post is hard for me to review, because I both 1) really like this post and 2) really failed to deliver on the IOUs. As is, I think the post deserves highly upvoted comments that are critical / have clarifying questions; I give some responses, but not enough that I feel like this is ‘complete’, even considering the long threads in the comments.
[This is somewhat especially disappointing, because I deliberately had “December 31st” as a deadline so that this would get into the 2019 review instead of the 2020 review, and had hoped this would be the first post in a sequence that would be remembered fondly instead of something closer to ‘a shout into the void’; also apparently I was tricked by the difference between server time and local time or something, and so it’s being reviewed now instead of last year, one of the oldest posts instead of one of the newest.]
And so it’s hard to see the post without the holes; it’s hard to see the holes without guilt, or at least a lingering yearning.
The main thing that changed after this post is some Circlers reached out to me; overall, I think the reception of this post in the Circling world was positive. I don’t know if the rationalist world thought much differently about Circling; I think the pandemic killed most of the natural momentum it had, and there wasn’t any concerted push (that I saw) to use Circle Anywhere, which might have kept the momentum going (or spread it).
This post is hard for me to review, because I both 1) really like this post and 2) really failed to deliver on the IOUs. As is, I think the post deserves highly upvoted comments that are critical / have clarifying questions; I give some responses, but not enough that I feel like this is ‘complete’, even considering the long threads in the comments.
[This is somewhat especially disappointing, because I deliberately had “December 31st” as a deadline so that this would get into the 2019 review instead of the 2020 review, and had hoped this would be the first post in a sequence that would be remembered fondly instead of something closer to ‘a shout into the void’; also apparently I was tricked by the difference between server time and local time or something, and so it’s being reviewed now instead of last year, one of the oldest posts instead of one of the newest.]
And so it’s hard to see the post without the holes; it’s hard to see the holes without guilt, or at least a lingering yearning.
The main thing that changed after this post is some Circlers reached out to me; overall, I think the reception of this post in the Circling world was positive. I don’t know if the rationalist world thought much differently about Circling; I think the pandemic killed most of the natural momentum it had, and there wasn’t any concerted push (that I saw) to use Circle Anywhere, which might have kept the momentum going (or spread it).