And it’s useless to everyone who wasn’t there at the beginning of the rerun. Has anyone who hasn’t read the sequences ever wanted this? I’m pretty convinced it doesn’t help anyone at all.
I am quite confident that this opinion is one that is shared with other LW members, although you are the first person to say so that I have seen. I have had several people who have told me that they appreciate the reruns (in private messages, and in actual conversations). A couple of those conversations were with LW lurkers, who are not commenting (and are unlikely to create accounts just to participate in the very limited discussions that go on there). I would guess that there a substantial number of others like them.
I would additionally bet that there are a lot of LW members who are not commenting, but still reading (if there’s a way to check the number of views on a page per day, that would be some useful data to collect). There also just isn’t much to comment about in the sequences. When they were being written, they were the strange and often controversial opinions of this guy named Eliezer Yudkowsky on Robin Hanson’s blog. Now, those ideas are commonplace and widely accepted in the community. At this point, anyone who has something new to say about the Torture vs. Specks problem is really just going to write a new post. At this point, I would bet a lot of people who joined Less Wrong after the sequences were written are just interested in reading the collected ideas in the sequences in the order that they were written, as a coherent whole.
With regards to the comments issue, I agree. Initially, I thought that the comments should go on the original posts, but a poll of LWers decided against it, because of concerns that it would clog up the “recent posts” feature. I didn’t see alexflint’s post until now, but given that the number of comments are typically low, I don’t think that this is much of a concern anymore. As a result, I have created this poll.
I am quite confident that this opinion is one that is shared with other LW members, although you are the first person to say so that I have seen. I have had several people who have told me that they appreciate the reruns (in private messages, and in actual conversations). A couple of those conversations were with LW lurkers, who are not commenting (and are unlikely to create accounts just to participate in the very limited discussions that go on there). I would guess that there a substantial number of others like them.
I would additionally bet that there are a lot of LW members who are not commenting, but still reading (if there’s a way to check the number of views on a page per day, that would be some useful data to collect). There also just isn’t much to comment about in the sequences. When they were being written, they were the strange and often controversial opinions of this guy named Eliezer Yudkowsky on Robin Hanson’s blog. Now, those ideas are commonplace and widely accepted in the community. At this point, anyone who has something new to say about the Torture vs. Specks problem is really just going to write a new post. At this point, I would bet a lot of people who joined Less Wrong after the sequences were written are just interested in reading the collected ideas in the sequences in the order that they were written, as a coherent whole.
With regards to the comments issue, I agree. Initially, I thought that the comments should go on the original posts, but a poll of LWers decided against it, because of concerns that it would clog up the “recent posts” feature. I didn’t see alexflint’s post until now, but given that the number of comments are typically low, I don’t think that this is much of a concern anymore. As a result, I have created this poll.