I of course have lots of thoughts! My current tentative take is that ideally I would like LessWrong to be a hierarchy of communities with their own streams and norms, which when they produce particularly good output, feed into a shared agora-like space (and potentially multiple levels of this).
Reddit is kind of structured like this. Subreddits each have their own culture, but the Reddit frontpage and people’s individual feeds are the result of the most upvoted content in each Subreddit bubbling up to a broader audience.
I think Reddit is lacking a bunch of other infrastructure to do this properly for the things I care about, and I would like a stronger universal culture than Reddit currently has, but it’s a decent pointer for one structure that seems promising to me (LessWrong is far away from this for a bunch of different reasons that I could go into, but would take time, so I am going to keep it at this for now).
Thank you for the answer! I do share the sense that LW is far from where Reddit is at, and (separately?) from where you tentatively want it to be. If you’re considering writing this up in more detail, then I’d be glad to read it.
I of course have lots of thoughts! My current tentative take is that ideally I would like LessWrong to be a hierarchy of communities with their own streams and norms, which when they produce particularly good output, feed into a shared agora-like space (and potentially multiple levels of this).
Reddit is kind of structured like this. Subreddits each have their own culture, but the Reddit frontpage and people’s individual feeds are the result of the most upvoted content in each Subreddit bubbling up to a broader audience.
I think Reddit is lacking a bunch of other infrastructure to do this properly for the things I care about, and I would like a stronger universal culture than Reddit currently has, but it’s a decent pointer for one structure that seems promising to me (LessWrong is far away from this for a bunch of different reasons that I could go into, but would take time, so I am going to keep it at this for now).
Thank you for the answer! I do share the sense that LW is far from where Reddit is at, and (separately?) from where you tentatively want it to be. If you’re considering writing this up in more detail, then I’d be glad to read it.