I guess there’s two problems here: community building and useful work.
As far as useful work goes, its probably inevitable and for the best that it moves elsewhere, especially things that will scare off new people, such as highly technical maths and all politics.
As far as community building goes, perhaps this should be treated as orthogonal?
Incidentally, if anyone wants to play dungeons & discourse or over-analysed game-theory diplomacy I’d be up for a game.
On a personal note, I ran into transhumanism, and SIAI and EY over a decade ago, but I didn’t think I was smart enough to contribute anything, so I didn’t get involved. Its only recently that I decided I was ready to have something useful to say, and I’m kinda annoyed that I’ve got involved just as the community seems to be dying.
I suppose part of this is that I want the hipster street cred of joining “before it was cool” and that maybe this isn’t the most productive attitude.
I guess there’s two problems here: community building and useful work.
As far as useful work goes, its probably inevitable and for the best that it moves elsewhere, especially things that will scare off new people, such as highly technical maths and all politics.
As far as community building goes, perhaps this should be treated as orthogonal? Incidentally, if anyone wants to play dungeons & discourse or over-analysed game-theory diplomacy I’d be up for a game.
On a personal note, I ran into transhumanism, and SIAI and EY over a decade ago, but I didn’t think I was smart enough to contribute anything, so I didn’t get involved. Its only recently that I decided I was ready to have something useful to say, and I’m kinda annoyed that I’ve got involved just as the community seems to be dying.
I suppose part of this is that I want the hipster street cred of joining “before it was cool” and that maybe this isn’t the most productive attitude.