My current sense is that we’re still in a pretty advantageous position in the online sphere (relative to twitter and facebook etc) to understand what’s happening and do analysis on the ongoing effects and secondary effects (what the recession will look like, what actions can be taken to mitigate the effects), and that on-site we want to continue discussing important and under-explored covid ideas for some time (e.g. on my new justified key insights thread), even while we’ve now passed peak covid discussion. (As I look at the frontpage, 4⁄13 posts are covid, and I expect that it will maybe level out at 15%-20% for a while, perhaps with several valleys of no covid when nothing much happens.)
It’s less clear to me that there is infrastructure for the team to be working on (like the links database, adding a coronavirus tag, adding a section for covid posts to the top of the frontpage, etc), and it seems that we should primarily try to take advantage of all the increased demand for online events and other online things and other than that get back to work as normal on things like tagging, wiki, making a book of the LW review, and other work.
Am interested in ideas for other things for us to build or counter views.
(Remember, if you don’t like the covid discussion on LessWrong, you can use the new filter tool on the frontpage to make sure you never see it.)
My current sense is that we’re still in a pretty advantageous position in the online sphere (relative to twitter and facebook etc) to understand what’s happening and do analysis on the ongoing effects and secondary effects (what the recession will look like, what actions can be taken to mitigate the effects), and that on-site we want to continue discussing important and under-explored covid ideas for some time (e.g. on my new justified key insights thread), even while we’ve now passed peak covid discussion. (As I look at the frontpage, 4⁄13 posts are covid, and I expect that it will maybe level out at 15%-20% for a while, perhaps with several valleys of no covid when nothing much happens.)
It’s less clear to me that there is infrastructure for the team to be working on (like the links database, adding a coronavirus tag, adding a section for covid posts to the top of the frontpage, etc), and it seems that we should primarily try to take advantage of all the increased demand for online events and other online things and other than that get back to work as normal on things like tagging, wiki, making a book of the LW review, and other work.
Am interested in ideas for other things for us to build or counter views.
(Remember, if you don’t like the covid discussion on LessWrong, you can use the new filter tool on the frontpage to make sure you never see it.)