Links to examples would go great here.
Eric B
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kinda awkwardly worded, could pack more of a punch with some optimization.
Seems ill-fitting with the others, I’d drop this entirely. I doubt anyone who would aggressively exploit bugs will be swayed by it.
Encourage, not demand :), and maybe link to a blog post about why betting is good too?
Something more humble will probably work better, “hope” is a good word here. Deprecated → archived ? And we’d probably want to bulk-import including comments before stepping up as official replacement (“good content” is questionable PR), the work will be in hooking up the sequences and similar to Arbital’s nav features.
eventual and unilateral don’t really fit, and this sentence does not really make sense in general. Community building is hard because humans are messy systems with all sorts of behavioral patterns and complex interactions, not because we need mass adoption. Also, mass readership and mass community involvement are pretty different, we can do okay with a smallish community of awesome people if they’re working well.
In both the notes, “recent pivot”, I’d avoid pivot framing, to go with the whole “we’re building the next part” thing.
Also, the framing of “the final decisions are made by the core team” sounds vaguely power / conflict-y, I’d suggest something more gentle.
And mention Nate as a previous adviser?
Perhaps, it currently feels ambiguous as to whether you’re looking to use volunteers, or just saying you’ve got a good hiring pool.
Is there any part of Arbital we can put as “hey, want to make this part?” so the community can help push this forward (an external prediction market for bayes points with an API we can use?)? If yes or maybe, maybe saying we’re looking into ways to harness devs who want to help out part time?
I’d really want to tell this not as a whole new vision, but as moving onto a different part of an existing vision. We did already have plans for discussion, and the grand experiment to improve human knowledge exchange was there.
I’d tell this story fairly differently. This is not really how I saw math, and presenting it as not-a-failure is pretty important PR-wise. We do have a really good amount of math content, and want to talk about it as a place we got to test out our wiki features and get valuable feedback in a non-controversial domain before moving on to building other parts.
awkwardish, probably best drop functional, and maybe use network of knowledge rather than database?
Hits good points, but awkwardly structured / worded in a few places. I can fix, but would reorganize/rewrite a bunch.
Also worth considering quoting or summarizing one core paragraph, for people who have not read it or want a refresher. Load the things into readers heads :)
Oh, and the greenlink to her post wants a summary.
Needs some cushioning, to avoid setting expectations of not just powerful dictator-staff and arrogant experts. Something showing we want the higher ups to be helpful and awesome, not just powerful and able to suppress bad things.
The structuring feels fairly awkward, I’d rewrite with high-value of X changed to something more human-friendly, and naturally integrated with examples.
nods, it’s definitely something we want, and an 80⁄20 version was on the last list of wiki features to prioritize. The focus for the next while is going to be discussion features (for details see the announcement in #updates or #general), but when we return to improving the wiki side of Arbital it’ll be one of the earlier pieces to add. I’ve fixed the link in case for now.
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Possibly have it hidden for logged-in users, but shown to logged out users? It’d be good for casual readers to not have added hassle, and they’re very likely not going to log in and vote.
Not sure if it’s high value to go into details, I’m unsure which parts help and it’s not a set of things I’d expect people to be able to replicate based on a text description. Mostly talking a lot, trying to transfer lots of concepts which seem like they may be valuable, and sharing a bunch of bits of my development path as they seem relevant.
I may try and write a guide for it when I’ve got a larger sample size and feedback to work with. Which would totally happen if this thing exists :)
soften or remove, especially the word dictate. facilitate perhaps?