Thanks for that. I really should take a closer look at all the content there (there seems to be some beneficial stuff I wasn’t aware of), but the current format strikes me as pretty ill-suited to anyone but the most motivated aspiring rationalists and lifehackers. More to the point, I don’t think relative newcomers are actually going to read the FAQ (this is just a hunch based on what I would do / what I did).
I agree with your point that we could produce more social value by encouraging more posts, especially on instrumental rationality topics. But I think we can do a lot more on the cheap by figuring out how to make existing high-quality content and resources more accessible to readers who weren’t around when they were originally discussed.
You framed your post around life hacks and Alex’s response is also about them. But the link you give here is almost entirely about other topics.
Edit: I changed the wiki, and now the lights that you mentioned and the textbooks that Alex mentioned show up, but the proportion of advice didn’t change. Anyone actually looking for advice would give up before finding those examples.
What’s your perception of all the current ways top content is being aggregated?
Thanks for that. I really should take a closer look at all the content there (there seems to be some beneficial stuff I wasn’t aware of), but the current format strikes me as pretty ill-suited to anyone but the most motivated aspiring rationalists and lifehackers. More to the point, I don’t think relative newcomers are actually going to read the FAQ (this is just a hunch based on what I would do / what I did).
I agree with your point that we could produce more social value by encouraging more posts, especially on instrumental rationality topics. But I think we can do a lot more on the cheap by figuring out how to make existing high-quality content and resources more accessible to readers who weren’t around when they were originally discussed.
You framed your post around life hacks and Alex’s response is also about them. But the link you give here is almost entirely about other topics.
Edit: I changed the wiki, and now the lights that you mentioned and the textbooks that Alex mentioned show up, but the proportion of advice didn’t change. Anyone actually looking for advice would give up before finding those examples.