I think I would like a page for “the LessWrong consensus on parenting, AI forecasting, janas” I don’t think wikipedia would take what I consider to be good sources on those topics.
That could be a really useful direction to approach this: what topics would you like to see, and what is keeping you from creating/editing that page? The great thing about wikis is that a page doesn’t need to be perfect, just a reasonable first-pass, and if others are interested, they’ll help improve it.
I’m not sure I’d frame it as “consensus”, so much as “LessWrong thoughts on...” or just “TopicName”. The thoughts and ideas are the important part, not whether or how much agreement there is.
On LessWrong we lack a philosophy about how to get to consensus.
Audrey Tang seems to have created a great system for creating documents that describe a consensus. Having a system that works like what Audrey Tang build might be a way to come to a consensus view on topics like that.
I think I would like a page for “the LessWrong consensus on parenting, AI forecasting, janas” I don’t think wikipedia would take what I consider to be good sources on those topics.
That could be a really useful direction to approach this: what topics would you like to see, and what is keeping you from creating/editing that page? The great thing about wikis is that a page doesn’t need to be perfect, just a reasonable first-pass, and if others are interested, they’ll help improve it.
I’m not sure I’d frame it as “consensus”, so much as “LessWrong thoughts on...” or just “TopicName”. The thoughts and ideas are the important part, not whether or how much agreement there is.
I’ve created a number of those pages, but it’s kind of a slog and noone else helps. Currrently it feels like it’s just me doing it.
That leads to think of some features that might help: karma/thank-you pages for editors is one possibility.
I don’t want thanks, I want colleagues. If I sensed that others were working alongside me, that would be enough.
Thanks for the discourse here though, you are good at this.
On LessWrong we lack a philosophy about how to get to consensus.
Audrey Tang seems to have created a great system for creating documents that describe a consensus. Having a system that works like what Audrey Tang build might be a way to come to a consensus view on topics like that.