As the guy who originally wrote the “maybe we should have fewer hyperlinks or be careful with them?” post… for the record I have changed my views on this.
While I think there is a cost of LW having lots of hyperlinks… I also think it’s just overall better to have people plunge through the rabbithole and get caught up on all the important site concepts.
(I think it’s good to have a read-only-without-tabsplosion option, but I mostly think the going through a tabsplosion phase is helpful for people actually being able to contribute to LW state-of-the-art discussion for rationality and alignment)
Yeah. It’s maybe an unfortunate fact that the amount of stuff grows over time, but you will definitely hit a point where you’ve made it through the backlog.
As the guy who originally wrote the “maybe we should have fewer hyperlinks or be careful with them?” post… for the record I have changed my views on this.
While I think there is a cost of LW having lots of hyperlinks… I also think it’s just overall better to have people plunge through the rabbithole and get caught up on all the important site concepts.
(I think it’s good to have a read-only-without-tabsplosion option, but I mostly think the going through a tabsplosion phase is helpful for people actually being able to contribute to LW state-of-the-art discussion for rationality and alignment)
So this was a phase? You went through it, wrote the article and then came out the other side?
From where I am right now it feels never-ending but I suppose if I can read so much that it stops being so provably distracting, that’s a nice upside.
Yeah. It’s maybe an unfortunate fact that the amount of stuff grows over time, but you will definitely hit a point where you’ve made it through the backlog.