An elite intellectual community can^H^H^H has to mostly reject newcomers, but those it does accept it has to invest in very effectively (while avoiding the Objectivist failure mode).
I think part of the problem is that LW has elements of both a ground for elite intellectual discussion and a ground for a movement, and these goals seem hard or impossible to serve with the same forum.
I agree that laziness and expecting people to “just know” is also part of the problem. Upvoted for the quote.
I’m not entirely sure that expecting people to “just know” is a huge problem here, as on the Internet appropriate behavior can be inferred relatively easily by reading past posts and comments—hence the common instruction to “lurk more.”
One could construe this as a filter, but if so, who is it excluding? People with low situational awareness?
An elite intellectual community can^H^H^H has to mostly reject newcomers, but those it does accept it has to invest in very effectively (while avoiding the Objectivist failure mode).
I think part of the problem is that LW has elements of both a ground for elite intellectual discussion and a ground for a movement, and these goals seem hard or impossible to serve with the same forum.
I agree that laziness and expecting people to “just know” is also part of the problem. Upvoted for the quote.
I’m not entirely sure that expecting people to “just know” is a huge problem here, as on the Internet appropriate behavior can be inferred relatively easily by reading past posts and comments—hence the common instruction to “lurk more.”
One could construe this as a filter, but if so, who is it excluding? People with low situational awareness?