I got an email about this, so I decided to check if the quality of content here has really increased enough to claim to have material for a new Sequence (I stopped coming here after the in my opinion botched execution of lw2).
I checked the posts, and I don’t see anywhere near enough quality content to publish something called a Sequence, without cheapening the previous essays and what ‘The Sequences’ means in a LessWrong context.
(first, noting that if the site content isn’t exciting, no worries. Thanks for at least checking it out and giving it another look – I appreciate it)
I’d add to Habryka’s comment that my longterm plan here is something like:
This year, we review the best posts of 2018. This turns into a fairly simple sequence that clusters relevant posts around each other, and helps people get a sense of the overall major conversation threads that happened in 2018. This sequence is meant to be “highly curated”, but not meant to be thought in the same terms as “The Sequences™”. Sequence is just a generic term meaning “a collection of posts.”
In the coming years, there’s an additional step where some older posts are considered for something more like canonization, where they are actually added to a Major Updates sequence that’s more in the genre of “The Sequences™”, i.e. that everyone participating on the site is supposed to have read. This process is something I’d want to put a lot of care into, and my expectation is something like there’d typically be 1-5 posts in any given year that I wanted to add to the site’s common-knowledge-pool, and that I’d want multiple years to reflect on it.
There are definitely some decent posts, but calling a couple of good posts a official LessWrong Sequence still seems to cheapen what that used to mean.
Not to mention that I read this on facebook, so I barely associate it with here.
Note also that you can view this on GreaterWrong.
Thanks, GreaterWrong seems to still be an improvement over the redesign for me. I’m back to using it.
Huh, there must be some confusion going on. The goal is not to add another sequence to Rationality: A-Z, the goal is just to compile a sequence of the type of which we already have many (like Luke’s sequence on the neuroscience of happiness, or Kaj’s multiagent sequence, or Anna’s game theory sequence, etc.).
The goal is not to add another sequence to Rationality: A-Z, the goal is just to compile a sequence of the type of which we already have many
I note that in my mind R:AZ is a different thing from The Sequences; it’s abridged, and in a different order, and there’s a big difference between “posts arranged in an order” and “Eliezer unrolling and serializing the dependency tree for a concept.”
Yeah, I agree with that, but it seemed like the best way to disambiguate in the above context. Though note that “The Sequences” itself refers to at least three different orders and collections of posts, because the order of the posts was being actively edited on the wiki. So I don’t think even that has a single coherent referent.
I got an email about this, so I decided to check if the quality of content here has really increased enough to claim to have material for a new Sequence (I stopped coming here after the in my opinion botched execution of lw2).
I checked the posts, and I don’t see anywhere near enough quality content to publish something called a Sequence, without cheapening the previous essays and what ‘The Sequences’ means in a LessWrong context.
(first, noting that if the site content isn’t exciting, no worries. Thanks for at least checking it out and giving it another look – I appreciate it)
I’d add to Habryka’s comment that my longterm plan here is something like:
This year, we review the best posts of 2018. This turns into a fairly simple sequence that clusters relevant posts around each other, and helps people get a sense of the overall major conversation threads that happened in 2018. This sequence is meant to be “highly curated”, but not meant to be thought in the same terms as “The Sequences™”. Sequence is just a generic term meaning “a collection of posts.”
In the coming years, there’s an additional step where some older posts are considered for something more like canonization, where they are actually added to a Major Updates sequence that’s more in the genre of “The Sequences™”, i.e. that everyone participating on the site is supposed to have read. This process is something I’d want to put a lot of care into, and my expectation is something like there’d typically be 1-5 posts in any given year that I wanted to add to the site’s common-knowledge-pool, and that I’d want multiple years to reflect on it.
Not even Local Validity?
Note also that you can view this on GreaterWrong, with 2018 posts and nominated posts.
There are definitely some decent posts, but calling a couple of good posts a official LessWrong Sequence still seems to cheapen what that used to mean.
Not to mention that I read this on facebook, so I barely associate it with here.
Thanks, GreaterWrong seems to still be an improvement over the redesign for me. I’m back to using it.
Huh, there must be some confusion going on. The goal is not to add another sequence to Rationality: A-Z, the goal is just to compile a sequence of the type of which we already have many (like Luke’s sequence on the neuroscience of happiness, or Kaj’s multiagent sequence, or Anna’s game theory sequence, etc.).
I note that in my mind R:AZ is a different thing from The Sequences; it’s abridged, and in a different order, and there’s a big difference between “posts arranged in an order” and “Eliezer unrolling and serializing the dependency tree for a concept.”
Yeah, I agree with that, but it seemed like the best way to disambiguate in the above context. Though note that “The Sequences” itself refers to at least three different orders and collections of posts, because the order of the posts was being actively edited on the wiki. So I don’t think even that has a single coherent referent.