I was going to write a longer review but I realised that Ben’s curation notice actually explains the strengths of this post very well so you should read that!
In terms of including this in the 2018 review I think this depends on what the review is for.
If the review is primarily for the purpose of building common knowledge within the community then including this post maybe isn’t worth it as it is already fairly well known, having been linked from SSC.
On the other hand if the review process is at least partly for, as Raemon put it:
“I want LessWrong to encourage extremely high quality intellectual labor.”
Then this post feels like an extremely strong candidate.
(Personal footnote: This post was essentially what converted me from a LessWrong lurker to a regular commentor/contributor—I think it was mainly just being impressed with how thorough it was and thinking that’s the kind of community I’d like to get involved with.)
(Personal footnote: This post was essentially what converted me from a LessWrong lurker to a regular commentor/contributor—I think it was mainly just being impressed with how thorough it was and thinking that’s the kind of community I’d like to get involved with.)
I was going to write a longer review but I realised that Ben’s curation notice actually explains the strengths of this post very well so you should read that!
In terms of including this in the 2018 review I think this depends on what the review is for.
If the review is primarily for the purpose of building common knowledge within the community then including this post maybe isn’t worth it as it is already fairly well known, having been linked from SSC.
On the other hand if the review process is at least partly for, as Raemon put it:
“I want LessWrong to encourage extremely high quality intellectual labor.”
Then this post feels like an extremely strong candidate.
(Personal footnote: This post was essentially what converted me from a LessWrong lurker to a regular commentor/contributor—I think it was mainly just being impressed with how thorough it was and thinking that’s the kind of community I’d like to get involved with.)
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