Nothing personal but I predict that nothing will really come out of this (80%).
Lesswrongers already do this sort of thing on their own (so the low-hanging fruit is probably mostly taken) 2. You seem are underestimating what it takes to connect people well enough for them to actually do something.
Yes, I thought that there was a good chance of that, which is why I approached this so cautiously. People in good technical jobs -- a good fraction of LWers—rarely care about networking.
And as to (2), that is why I said that at this stage, any connections would be done personally, not throough some sort of online mechanism.
As to (1), I think that LWers who know each other face-to-face connect to each other the way any other friends/acquaintances do, but I suspect that online community members, even ones with a strong online reputation, rarely reach out to each other.
(Still, a few people have in the past contacted me and I contacted a few, in each case without prior direct contact, so it does happen occasionally.)
See also the caveats in my post.
That said, I think that if carefully designed, certain business contacts among LWers who do not know each other F2F could be valuable to everyone involved.
Nothing personal but I predict that nothing will really come out of this (80%).
Lesswrongers already do this sort of thing on their own (so the low-hanging fruit is probably mostly taken) 2. You seem are underestimating what it takes to connect people well enough for them to actually do something.
Yes, I thought that there was a good chance of that, which is why I approached this so cautiously. People in good technical jobs -- a good fraction of LWers—rarely care about networking.
And as to (2), that is why I said that at this stage, any connections would be done personally, not throough some sort of online mechanism.
As to (1), I think that LWers who know each other face-to-face connect to each other the way any other friends/acquaintances do, but I suspect that online community members, even ones with a strong online reputation, rarely reach out to each other.
(Still, a few people have in the past contacted me and I contacted a few, in each case without prior direct contact, so it does happen occasionally.)
See also the caveats in my post.
That said, I think that if carefully designed, certain business contacts among LWers who do not know each other F2F could be valuable to everyone involved.