This assumes that the period when Eliezer was writing a lot was pretty optimal, and we should be trying to recapitulate that era of success. Maybe the thing Eliezer was trying to do has now succeeded, and we should be using the site in a very different way now? Or, if he didn’t succeed, there may still be better goals to move toward than ‘lots of people are active and have interesting discussions about miscellaneous topics a la early-LW’.
This assumes that the period when Eliezer was writing a lot was pretty optimal, and we should be trying to recapitulate that era of success.
The OP states that, and I think I agree, in the sense that if there’s a topic that would be as general and as interesting as the Sequences, then I would rather someone write a long text about it here than them not do that. I suspect, as I’ve argued elsewhere, that there isn’t something in that class; there are lots of interesting things for people to do now, but they aren’t going to be as common an interest.
I do think that there are changes LW could make to adapt to the new community and purpose for it, but I’m not sure here is the best place to discuss that.
This assumes that the period when Eliezer was writing a lot was pretty optimal, and we should be trying to recapitulate that era of success. Maybe the thing Eliezer was trying to do has now succeeded, and we should be using the site in a very different way now? Or, if he didn’t succeed, there may still be better goals to move toward than ‘lots of people are active and have interesting discussions about miscellaneous topics a la early-LW’.
The OP states that, and I think I agree, in the sense that if there’s a topic that would be as general and as interesting as the Sequences, then I would rather someone write a long text about it here than them not do that. I suspect, as I’ve argued elsewhere, that there isn’t something in that class; there are lots of interesting things for people to do now, but they aren’t going to be as common an interest.
I do think that there are changes LW could make to adapt to the new community and purpose for it, but I’m not sure here is the best place to discuss that.