One reason why I find Lesswrong valuable is that it serves as a sort of “wisdom feed” for myself, where I got exposed to a lot of great writing. Especially writing that ambitiously attempts to build long-lasting gears. Sadly, for most of the good writers on Lesswrong, I have already read or at least skimmed all of their posts. I wonder, though, to which extent I am missing out on great content like that on the wider internet. There are textbooks, of course, but then there’s also all this knowledge that is usually left out of textbooks. For myself, it probably makes sense to just curate my own RSS feed and ask language models for “The Matt Levine in Domain X” etc. But it also feels like it should be possible to create a feed for this type of category with language models? Sort of like the opposite of news minimalist. Gears maximalist?
One reason why I find Lesswrong valuable is that it serves as a sort of “wisdom feed” for myself, where I got exposed to a lot of great writing. Especially writing that ambitiously attempts to build long-lasting gears. Sadly, for most of the good writers on Lesswrong, I have already read or at least skimmed all of their posts. I wonder, though, to which extent I am missing out on great content like that on the wider internet. There are textbooks, of course, but then there’s also all this knowledge that is usually left out of textbooks. For myself, it probably makes sense to just curate my own RSS feed and ask language models for “The Matt Levine in Domain X” etc. But it also feels like it should be possible to create a feed for this type of category with language models? Sort of like the opposite of news minimalist. Gears maximalist?