I like this a lot. I think my main prediction is something like, “this is the kind of atmosphere LW can have, once the garden is more firmly established as a garden.” Like, I think in the ideal world I would’ve never identified my own set of recommendations as being necessary, and would’ve just thought that what you describe is what LW is, and always was supposed to be.
(There’s an important distinction between “we focus on truth” and “we focus on positive-sum idea generation,” but I think I would notice and care about that difference a lot less if I didn’t think the epistemic quality was under threat. i.e. if there was more safety around things to start with, I predict I would have just nodded along with your description as the correct one, eliding the subtle difference as not really worth sweating over or perhaps not even noticing it at all.)
I like this a lot. I think my main prediction is something like, “this is the kind of atmosphere LW can have, once the garden is more firmly established as a garden.” Like, I think in the ideal world I would’ve never identified my own set of recommendations as being necessary, and would’ve just thought that what you describe is what LW is, and always was supposed to be.
(There’s an important distinction between “we focus on truth” and “we focus on positive-sum idea generation,” but I think I would notice and care about that difference a lot less if I didn’t think the epistemic quality was under threat. i.e. if there was more safety around things to start with, I predict I would have just nodded along with your description as the correct one, eliding the subtle difference as not really worth sweating over or perhaps not even noticing it at all.)