In science you don’t have any journal where all papers are read by everyone and it still works efficiently to build on the work of other people.
The main way this is achieved is by putting the responsibility of reading whatever is referenced when the reader feels like they need more information.
I think that even if you would have a curated list of very important posts not everybody is going to read them. Having such a resource could be useful as a resource for some people who desire to have more curation to guide their reading but that won’t be everybody.
When it comes to additional features to encourage linking, we might add a list of backlinks within LessWrong to a post. On the top of a post the amount of backlinks could be stated and when a user clicks on the counter it expands and all the backlinks are shown.
In science you don’t have any journal where all papers are read by everyone and it still works efficiently to build on the work of other people.
The main way this is achieved is by putting the responsibility of reading whatever is referenced when the reader feels like they need more information.
I think that even if you would have a curated list of very important posts not everybody is going to read them. Having such a resource could be useful as a resource for some people who desire to have more curation to guide their reading but that won’t be everybody.
When it comes to additional features to encourage linking, we might add a list of backlinks within LessWrong to a post. On the top of a post the amount of backlinks could be stated and when a user clicks on the counter it expands and all the backlinks are shown.