I think people are just writing about less accessible things on average. I wouldn’t want to have more comments just by not talking about abstruse topics, at the moment. I love you all, but I also love AI safety :P
I briefly looked at the comments within 1 year on some old LW posts, and the numbers seem to match from then too—only ~25 comments on the more rareified meta-ethics posts, well below average.
I think people are just writing about less accessible things on average. I wouldn’t want to have more comments just by not talking about abstruse topics, at the moment. I love you all, but I also love AI safety :P
I briefly looked at the comments within 1 year on some old LW posts, and the numbers seem to match from then too—only ~25 comments on the more rareified meta-ethics posts, well below average.