I suppose the natural question to ask after establishing the importance of common knowledge is, “How can we ensure that Less Wrong produces common knowledge and not just a flood of ideas?”. Attempting to create these kind of canonical posts is one way of achieving this.
(would prefer meta discussion to happen elsewhere. Preferably this conversation about common knowledge will stand on its own, for anyone who wishes to understand it and discuss it separate from policies for the site.)
I suppose the natural question to ask after establishing the importance of common knowledge is, “How can we ensure that Less Wrong produces common knowledge and not just a flood of ideas?”. Attempting to create these kind of canonical posts is one way of achieving this.
(would prefer meta discussion to happen elsewhere. Preferably this conversation about common knowledge will stand on its own, for anyone who wishes to understand it and discuss it separate from policies for the site.)
That’s reasonable
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