Thanks for posting this! It sounds like it was definitely an overall success.
I think you raise an interesting conundrum with not wanting to advertise on LW in case it goes poorly—we don’t want to get a publication bias against events that turn out poorly, while at the same time not dismissing promising ideas based on it taking time to get execution right. I would like people to err on the side of pre-announcing, but that is easy for me to say as someone who has not organised something.
I’m interested in hearing about the people who didn’t participate, and one participant’s comment that
It got kind of hard to tell who was and wasn’t on board with things
What were those who were not participating doing? In what sense weren’t they on board?
Well, this is actually precisely why I made my Project Registration Database. I just forgot to use it in this instance.
What were those who were not participating doing? In what sense weren’t they on board?
Mostly just...not participating? It was a Discord server so they’d join, then idle, while other people made lists and gave progress reports on what they’d done so far. They weren’t on board in the sense that they weren’t doing trivially inconvenient things they’d been putting off.
Wow, that’s a great resource! Any thoughts on how we can make it more likely to be used?
Thanks for the info on the people not joining in. From “not on board” I wasn’t sure if there were some detractors or what-and-see-ers who had attended and what their misgivings were.
I notice that you don’t list any lessons learnt about fraction of attendees making progress. It seems plausible that they might be low-hanging fruit (though you are likely to have more insight here than me)
Thanks for posting this! It sounds like it was definitely an overall success.
I think you raise an interesting conundrum with not wanting to advertise on LW in case it goes poorly—we don’t want to get a publication bias against events that turn out poorly, while at the same time not dismissing promising ideas based on it taking time to get execution right. I would like people to err on the side of pre-announcing, but that is easy for me to say as someone who has not organised something.
I’m interested in hearing about the people who didn’t participate, and one participant’s comment that
What were those who were not participating doing? In what sense weren’t they on board?
Well, this is actually precisely why I made my Project Registration Database. I just forgot to use it in this instance.
Mostly just...not participating? It was a Discord server so they’d join, then idle, while other people made lists and gave progress reports on what they’d done so far. They weren’t on board in the sense that they weren’t doing trivially inconvenient things they’d been putting off.
Wow, that’s a great resource! Any thoughts on how we can make it more likely to be used?
Thanks for the info on the people not joining in. From “not on board” I wasn’t sure if there were some detractors or what-and-see-ers who had attended and what their misgivings were.
I notice that you don’t list any lessons learnt about fraction of attendees making progress. It seems plausible that they might be low-hanging fruit (though you are likely to have more insight here than me)